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adjective

Definition of slaveringnext
as in slobbering

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slavering

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verb

present participle of slaver
as in drooling
to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth a dog slavering over a bone

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slavering
  1. oily
  2. oleaginous
  3. sickening
  4. soapy
  5. gushy
  6. hagiographic
  7. unctuous
Adjective
  • The depigmentation procedure, invented by an oily scientist, becomes extremely popular.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Take it from someone who has bought, sold, found, cleaned, and restored some dusty, oily gems: Your records probably need a good bath.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of oily
Adjective
  • One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
  • At any moment, the noodles might dissolve, the cheese topping burn, the dish collapse into a soggy, oleaginous mess.
    — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
Definition of oleaginous
Adjective
  • The disconnect between the reality that many people are currently experiencing hunger, in part because of climate change, and this fancy dinner was sickening.
    — The Dial, The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The ceaselessly rolling, jolting boat was sickening to him, too.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of sickening
Adjective
  • There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The group that seems to have inspired Reid is Fleetwood Mac, which, with its shifting intramural love relationships, sundry drug problems and issues of control — the soapiest of rock’s many operas — was a romance novel/miniseries waiting to happen.
    — Robert LloydTelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
Definition of soapy
Adjective
  • The chatter has only grown in recent days, after Ms. Anderson — who just celebrated a birthday — posted a story on her Instagram account, showing a lavish bouquet of flowers and a gushy card from an admirer.
    — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no better time to embrace the mushy gushy than in the first few moments after winning gold medals together.
    — Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
Definition of gushy
Adjective
  • Stalin willed into being socialist realism, a hagiographic style that crept into art forms like music and painting.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This is the same notion that makes this more of a hagiographic portrait than a truly thoughtful biographical film.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of hagiographic
Adjective
  • Those suspects include the bartender (Gabrielle Ryan), a sad sack of a man on a blind date (Reed Diamond), an imperious hostess (Sarah McCormack), and an unctuous, boozy piano player (Ed Weeks).
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The maguey imparts a subtly vegetal flavor, and cooks reserve just enough fat so that each bite of meat is unctuous.
    — Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of unctuous
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