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US
/ˈskəɫk/
]
[ UK /skˈʌlk/ ]
[ UK /skˈʌlk/ ]
VERB
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
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move stealthily
The lonely man skulks down the main street all day - avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
How To Use skulk In A Sentence
- Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
- Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
- He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
- Instead of lining up at feeders like proper birds, they lurk in the treetops and skulk in the brush.
- In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
- Frenchman, who skulked so that I made sure of him, and not a blessed anker of foreign brandy, nor even a forty-pound bag of tea. Mary Anerley
- To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. Books in the Mail (W/E 8/30/2008)
- Daum skulked away to be replaced by Rudi Voeller, who had barely sat down before he was off to be national coach.
- The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
- How can you skulk mysteriously when you're goggling at the camera?
