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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

He came skulkingly out from the trees, as if he had been lying in wait for her!

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

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 Reid, Mayne

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 Onions, Oliver