Synonyms for skulk

Grammar : Verb

Spell : skuhlk

Phonetic Transcription : skʌlk

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Définition of skulk

Origin : c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, cf. Norwegian skulke "to shirk, malinger," Danish skulke "to spare oneself, shirk," Swedish skolka "to shirk, skulk, slink, play truant." Common in Middle English but lacking in 15c.-16c. records; possibly reborrowed 17c. Related: Skulked; skulking; skulker; skulkery.

verb lurk; shirk

Example sentences :

He does not shuffle or prevaricate, dodge or skulk; but is honest, upright, and straightforward.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

He didn't mean to skulk like a whipped cur about his own decks.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

Instead, he must skulk in the thicket like a coyote until the man passed.
Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx

Sit there and skulk, while the others do the work, would you?
Extract from : « Cutlass and Cudgel » by George Manville Fenn

I suppose you thought that, being off duty, you could skulk in your cabin and do nothing.
Extract from : « Under the Chilian Flag » by Harry Collingwood

On coming within sight of us, the figure was seen to skulk and hide in the bushes.
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

"We do not skulk any longer like rats or city men in dark holes," he told them.
Extract from : « The Defiant Agents » by Andre Alice Norton

Everything has seemed to cower, skulk, and hide, to run as if pursued.
Extract from : « The Face of the Fields » by Dallas Lore Sharp

Yet no matter how you may hide and skulk and hunt, never a glimpse of one of them will you get.
Extract from : « Everyday Adventures » by Samuel Scoville

A moment later they began to skulk off in the direction of the grove.
Extract from : « In The Saddle » by Oliver Optic

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