skulk
verb (used without object)
to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason.
skulkingly
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a word derived from
skulk.
Example Sentences
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Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy, a sure bet for early burnout.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or would we all, Minetta, the Squire, you, I, have felt meanly and skulkingly relieved when the last tail-light had died away in the night again?
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
There I entered skulkingly, as a gameless hunter may, and hid my untrophied head beneath a mound of ancient hay, not without the mustiness of its age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
Not hastily, but slow and skulkingly; ceding the ground inch by inch, as though reluctant to leave it.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
He came skulkingly out from the trees, as if he had been lying in wait for her!
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
