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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sloped off" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone leaving a place quietly or without drawing attention. Example: "After the meeting ended, he sloped off without saying goodbye."
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The rest had either sloped off to join the Tories or lost interest.
So he got out of his cossie and sloped off home, like, you know, fuck that.
By Burton-on-Trent, I'd have broken and sloped off to another carriage under the pretext of a toilet break.
Though updates on her breakfast arrangements, toilette and transport were promised, I sloped off to the airport.
The children gradually sloped off to bed, but Ronnie and his wife made the dawn chorus and beyond.
Barney has sloped off into the afternoon, and now it's my turn to sit here telling you about the rain.
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When Saul Goodman sloped off-screen in the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, to begin a new life in Nebraska under another identity, it seemed we'd seen the last of television's most lovable sleazy lawyer.
Instead, he is a huge film buff, sloping off to afternoon movies.
He smiles and slopes off, slipping on shades, in search of strangers.
As Lockhart slopes off, the light under the Sacred Heart blinks on.
When I left, it felt like I was sloping off like a thief in the night.
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