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Discover LudwigThe word "slouch" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe either a physical posture (i.e. a person sitting or standing in a relaxed and careless manner) or an attitude/demeanor (i.e. a person seeming indifferent or apathetic). For example: After she failed her test, she slouched into her seat, dejected.
Dictionary
slouch
verb
To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
synonyms
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And it's really no slouch when it comes to the smarts, either.
What about that afternoon where you tried not to slouch?
Gwyneth Paltrow's mother used to tell her not to slouch and that she needed to wash her hair.
He won't slouch or lean in a chair.
And the food's no slouch either: the city's beloved fish stew, cioppino; Dungeness crab and prawns à la Monza with cream and paprika, a nod to the restaurant's Croatian origins, as is their habit of cooking the daily catch over mesquite wood; and rich, rich oysters Rockefeller.
I can get my son in and out of a babygrow in the time it takes most people to butter a slice of bread, and I'm also no slouch when it comes to relentlessly documenting every single stage of his development in a newspaper to the eternal fury of about six people on the internet.
Carlyle is clearly no slouch in the genius/troublemaker stakes himself.
Mr Blair is no slouch either where "faith communities" (whatever happened to "religions"?) are concerned.
Aiming to fill this niche, TML and NAP asked focus groups (of middle-class blacks aged 20-40) whatheyey wanted to slouch over at the weekend.
(The fellow Ms Cave finished just ahead of does not look a slouch).
Married to a ski champion, Mr Benetton is no slouch on the slopes himself.
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