Crossword clues for skulking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skulk \Skulk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skulked; p. pr. & vb. n. Skulking.] [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skulke to spare or save one's self, to play the truant, Sw. skolka to be at leisure, to shirk, Icel. skoll
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Cf. Scowl.] To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. ``Want skulks in holes and crevices.''
--W. C. Bryant.Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of skulk English)
WordNet
adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows" [syn: furtive, lurking, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious]
n. evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering" [syn: malingering]
Usage examples of "skulking".
Why spend your time skulking around parties picking up people like me to screw?
Little furtive man, little skulking, skittering man--Duncan said to that one who so long ago had lurked, jackal-like, about the company of Jesus, who had never been one of that company nor had tried to be one of them, who had only watched and listened and then had sat huddled, in some hidden corner, to write what he had seen and heard--you did better than you knew.
Why, he asked that little skulking man, why did you never let me see your face?
But she wondered uneasily if there was a man skulking about the place.
Maybe this is just a a regular night in a major military installation, and you have been skulking in the mountains so long you have forgotten.
The general width of the river being a little less than two hundred yards, such necessarily was about the distance between his two observers and the skulking Iroquois.
They often saw other ships sailing southeast, and three times the ship-master caught sight of a sail that looked like a skulking privateer, but no lone pirate wished to attack a fleet and so they continued on their way unmolested.
They might be anywhere, skulking like serpents and creeping up to kill us.
Thou hast gone skulking and hiding so far on thy course, and they that pursue thee will be too dull to think that thou mayest change.
Lady, forgive me, but Lord Galadedrid reported a dirty peasant skulking in the gardens, armed and endangering my Lady Elayne and my Lord Gawyn.
Sometimes they trotted down broad avenues, empty save for an occasional dog skulking in the dark.
Or would you prefer to seek comfort in the legends and memories of the past, and condemn future generations of the Avar to skulking at night in order to reach the Mother?
As she looked deep into the heart of the sphere, she could see Deirus skulking in and out.
It had been some minutes before she had noticed Yagharek, skulking against a wall in the shadows.
She re-entered the inhabited streets, where the people she passed were more than shifty-looking figures skulking hurriedly from shadow to shadow.