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sloughing, n. ecdysis, exuviation.

slovenly, a. untidy, disorderly, frowzy, careless.

slow, a. deliberate, moderate, gradual; dilatory, languid, unready,
phlegmatic, lingering, torpid, sluggish, slack, leisurely; (Colloq.)
wearisome, dull, prosaic, uninteresting, tiresome.

slow, v. slacken, relax, moderate, delay, retard.

sluggish, a. idle, lazy, slothful; inactive, slow, inert.

slump, n. (Colloq.) depreciation.

slur, v. soil, sully; disparage, traduce, asperse; blur, mackle.

slur, n. stain, mark; innuendo, reproach, brand.

slush, n. slosh, sludge.

slut, n. bitch (femaledog); slattern, quean, malkin.

sly, a. cautious, nimble, skillful, arch, wary, knowing, shrewd,
cunning, wily, artful; subtle, stealthy, clandestine, covert,
surreptitious, furtive.

smack, n. taste; kiss, buss; crack, snap.

smacking, a. brisk, smart, resounding.

small, a. little, minute, diminutive, petty, slight, inconsiderable,
puny, tiny, weazened, undeveloped, dwarfish, runty, wee, stunted,
inappreciable, undersized, atrophied; miniature; trivial, insignificant,
trifling, frivolous; mean, narrow-minded, illiberal, sordid, ungenerous,
contracted; short, limited; piping, feeble, weak; microscopic,
infinitesimal, molecular, corpuscular, atomic, fine; homeopathic.

smallpox, n. variola; varioloid (modified smallpox after
vaccination). Associated words: vaccination, vaccine, virus, variolation,
vaccinate, pock, pockmark, pockmarked, antivariolus, variolus, pocky,
papule, pustule.

smart, v. sting, prick, suffer.

smart, a. acute, bright, clever, apt, brilliant, gifted, talented;
precocious; vigorous, energetic, forcible; fashionable, pretentious, trim,
elegant; fresh, smacking, brisk; agile, nimble, lively; pungent, poignant,
intense, keen. Antonyms: dull, inapt, dowdy, tawdry.

smash, v. shiver, crush.--n. destruction, ruin, wreck;
bankruptcy.

smatterer, n. sciolist, superficialist.

smattering, n. sciolism, superficial knowledge.

smear, v. besmear, daub.--n. smooch, smutch, blotch, daub.

smeary, a. dauby, sticky, viscous.

smell, n. olfaction; odor, savor, scent; (sweet smell) fragrance,
aroma, perfume, redolence; (offensive smell) stink, fetor, stench.
Antonyms: inodorousness, scentlessness, anosmia. Associated Words:
olfactory, reek, fume, perfume, inodorous, malodorous, odoriferous,
odorous, osphresiology, osphretic, odorless, deodorize, deodorization,
emanation, effluvium, sniff, whiff, disinfect, dis