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Sluicing
- verb - draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
- irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
- pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
- pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
- transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
Slumming
- verb - spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
Slumping
- verb - assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off"
- fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank"
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
Slurping
- verb - eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"
Slurries
- noun - a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
- waste water
Slurring
- verb - become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"
- utter indistinctly
Slushing
- verb - make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls"
Sluttish
- adjective - casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
- characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
Ulterior
- adjective - beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw
- coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"
- lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell
Ultimity
- - The last stage or consequence; finality.