sidleverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈsaɪ.dəl/us/ˈsaɪ.dəl/to walk towards or away from someone, trying not to be noticed:
Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
She sidled past him, pretending that she had not seen him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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