Sidle

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to move sideways 

or 

obliquely. 



2. to edge along furtively. 



–noun 

3. a sidling movement.





　

Singer and his screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie, last worked together on "The Usual Suspects," and there are passages here that recall the suavity of the earlier film (which remains Singer’s best). The plan is for Stauffenberg to carry a briefcase bomb into the fortified bunker where he will be meeting Hitler, and then to sidle out before it blows. 





lurk (wait, without motion)

skulk (suggest cowardliness and stealth of movement) 

sneak (slink, of abject meaness of manner)

prowl (continuous roaming for prey)



skulk 

Norton has done some [publicity], appearing at the US premiere of the picture on Sunday, skulking [up] a specially dyed green carpet with perfunctory geniality.

slink

a slink [calf]

a slinky [gown]  

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