Definition of "slithering"
The act of one who slithers.
Quotations
Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits […]
2003, Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature, page 263