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Slouch vs Slouchingly - What's the difference?

slouch | slouchingly |

As a noun slouch

is a hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.

As a verb slouch

is to hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture.

As an adverb slouchingly is

with a slouching posture or motion.

slouch

English

Noun

  • A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
    • He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch .
  • any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
    • The plant hung in a permanent slouch .
  • someone who is slow to act
  • * 2014 , Ian Jack, " Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
    • In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
  • (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

    • Derived terms

    * slouch hat

    Verb

  • To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
    • Do not slouch when playing a flute.
  • To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
    • I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.

    References

    slouchingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a slouching posture or motion.