slough

Rather than correct them, Liz decides to keep up the pretense — no great stretch for someone so used to sloughing off and trying on one alias after another.

The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV’s ‘The Love Boat,’ sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton.

Aiello, who has monitored environmental conditions at the slough for more than a decade, said he was shocked by the results.

But consider adding on a scrub and sloughing off a layer or two of skin — it’s my favorite way to enter the new year.

At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.