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skulking

[ UK /skˈʌlkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈskəɫkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
    they developed a test to detect malingering

How To Use skulking In A Sentence

  • Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
  • Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
  • In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
  • After I dropped them off, I took a ride. I saw 2 jackals skulking up the road and an unidentified fox crossed in front of me.
  • Across the road I noticed some youths skulking around.
  • You want some weirdo skulking around the aisles, spraying toxic chemicals all over the place?
  • John was one day lying under a bush in the scrog, when he was aware of a collie on the far hillside skulking down through the deepest of the heather with obtrusive stealth. Memories and Portraits
  • A traffic warden is skulking around and has just stuck a ticket on the car next to me.
  • But in the darkness of the park we make out a dozen hooded figures skulking in a children's play area.
  • His first song was played on his knees, pulling the mic down as if he were skulking in the corner of the room, wanting to play, but not make a drama out of it.
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