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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skulk.

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Examples

  • He 's screaming at this guy who just kind of skulks by.

    faxmachine Diary Entry faxmachine 2003

  • In a signature scene, she skulks in her kitchen in the middle of the night, "distressing" a store-bought pie so the other moms will think it is homemade.

    Author Allison Pearson sings the song of the modern mom Monica Hesse 2011

  • Harrelson plays Arthur Popington, a guy who is apparently developmentally challenged in some regard -- a detail glossed over by the film -- and skulks the city streets at night in disguise as his alter-ego Defendor.

    Rabid Rewind: Defendor 2010

  • He skulks along the bushes as though trying not to be seen.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Harrelson plays Arthur Popington, a guy who is apparently developmentally challenged in some regard -- a detail glossed over by the film -- and skulks the city streets at night in disguise as his alter-ego Defendor.

    Archive 2010-07-01 2010

  • As Scala, Georgina Pazcoguin skulks around and seethes, all but stomping her foot in petulance.

    All Wet Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Loretta is a serial truant who skulks behind a curtain of hair.

    Tonight's TV highlights Will Hodgkinson 2010

  • He skulks along the bushes as though trying not to be seen.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • To be certain, Justine was also dressed exquisitely as she lay along a moonlit riverbank, discovered by a silent Claire who skulks in the bushes peering -- as if in a Rousseau -- at her noble, savage sister under the night sky.

    Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012

  • He skulks along the bushes as though trying not to be seen.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

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