slithering — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act or action of one who slithers.

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   As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.

   Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits[…]

Adjective

1. moving as on a slippery surface

   Synonyms

   slipping

   Examples

   his slipping and slithering progress over the ice