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slabber: The wolf opened its slavering jaws.
--n. 2 drool, saliva, drivel, dribble, spit, spittle, Dialect
slabber: The slaver formed on his lips as he raged on. 3
nonsense, drivel, rubbish, twaddle, piffle: The slaver spewed
forth by the critics set her teeth on edge.
slaverý n. 1 slave ship, slave-trader: Conditions were so bad aboard
the slavers that many of the poor souls died before reaching
their destination. 2 blackbirder, slave-trader; White slaver,
pimp, panderer: He was ashamed that his grandfather had been a
South Sea slaver.
slavery n. 1 enslavement, bondage, thraldom, thrall, enthralment,
servitude, serfdom, vassalage, yoke; subjugation, captivity,
Historical US peculiar institution: All of those ancient
cultures that we venerate practised slavery. 2 slave-trade,
blackbirding: No one ever mentions that the family fortune had
been made from slavery. 3 toil, moil, drudgery, travail, grind,
strain, (hard) labour: She remembered the years of slavery she
had spent at the kitchen sink.
sleazy adj. 1 unsubstantial or insubstantial, flimsy, slight, shabby,
poor, gimcrack, jerry-built, tawdry, cheap, tatty, ramshackle,
rickety, slipshod, Colloq US chintzy: Her garish dress was made
from some sleazy synthetic material. 2 disreputable, low-class,
low-grade, squalid, dirty, base, seedy, sordid, contemptible,
trashy, run-down, mean, cheap, Colloq crummy, slummy, Slang
crappy, cheesy: He was lying low in a sleazy hotel while the
police searched for him.
sleek adj. 1 smooth, slick, velvety, lustrous, shiny, shining,
glossy, silky, silken: The seals' sleek fur glistened in the
sunlight. 2 graceful, trim, streamlined: For her birthday
Edmund gave her a sleek convertible. 3 suave, unctuous, slimy,
fawning, oily, specious, hypocritical, Chiefly Brit smarmy: His
explanations sounded plausible enough, but we soon found out
what a sleek rogue he really was.
sleep v. 1 doze, (take a) nap, catnap, rest, repose, slumber, drowse,
drop or nod off, be in the land of Nod, be in the arms of
Morpheus, snore, Colloq snooze, saw wood, catch or log a few
zees (Z's), take or have a zizz, catch forty winks: I was so