skulk
verb (used without object)
to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason.
sculk
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a variation of
skulk.
Example Sentences
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Broadstreet seeing himself thus in danger began to flinch and to sculk; for some of the old royalists were earnest with the Quakers to prosecute the New England persecutors.
From The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams
They love the sun should witness what they do; Cowards have courage, when they see not death; And fearful hares, that sculk in forms all day, Yet fight their feeble quarrels by the moonlight.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
