skulk
verb (used without object)
to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason.
have skulked
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present perfectof skulk.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He would have skulked off into anonymity or ignominy, just another failed real estate developer and speculator.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019
You did nothing wrong, but you shouldn’t have skulked out of the park.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2014
As for him, he would fain have skulked off and shirked the interview had he dared.
From La Mere Bauche by Anthony Trollope
It would have better beseemed him to have died on his palace threshold than to have skulked away in the dark between the shelter of the 'two walls.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
You have skulked about this 'ere house for eighteen years of your precious life, vithout doing a ha'porth of work.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
