skulking

[ UK /skˈʌlkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈskəɫkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
    they developed a test to detect malingering
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How To Use skulking In A Sentence

  • I feel like skulking in the back row and being cold and unfriendly.
  • Down the bottom, skulking around coral in the sandy lagoon floor, are tiny damselfishes.
  • I now plan to permanently renounce skulking for all time.
  • Although Paul Walker is the ‘star,’ we can see a couple of half-decent character actors skulking through the works here and there.
  • Publication in 1930 of Bernard Riviere's magnum opus ‘A History of the Birds of Norfolk’ marked the commencement of almost three decades of steady increase in the numbers of the skulking and ever secretive bittern.
  • She didn't go skulking around behind your back.
  • And since I didn't want anyone to know I was worried about this, I've been sulking and skulking and letting the discontent grow.
  • In recent weeks some shady looking characters have been seen skulking around the Dunamaise Theatre at night.
  • It was gloomy, and the skulking figures of the town's down-and-outs gave the whole area a certain not-quite-alive not-quite-dead feel.
  • The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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