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skulker

  • a word derived from skulk.

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Serkis soars as Sméagol sinks, and if the next two Hobbit films hold hope, it is that this Peter Lorre-esque skulker will get more chances to work his evil magic.

From Time Dec. 5, 2012

Gradually he connected the skulker in the third row with the occasional byline above movie reviews.

From Time Jun. 21, 2012

The question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance.

From Time Magazine Archive

No skulker or tea-drinking poet is Walt Whitman.

From Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today by Legler, Henry Eduard

If a man can possibly avoid it, let him never go to the hospital: for he will be called a "skulker," or a "shyster," that desires to escape the impending battle.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred