0 past simple and past participle of slither
1 (of bodies) to move easily and quickly across a surface while twisting or curving:
Scientific discourse on race slithered into colonial practice and became the foundation for bureaucratic procedure there.
Yet when he was challenged he dodged and slithered away from making the charge that miners or power workers were breaking the law.
We have slithered from one crisis to another.
It has meant that over twelve years we have slithered from one crisis to another.
He made a number of errors and then slipped and slithered away to another misstatement.
During the intervening two years the industry has slithered closer and closer to the brink of destruction.
Pancras slithered and slid and changed his position.
They have slithered back from that.
