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  • adverb So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.

Etymologies

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lurking +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He entered the room softly, and lurkingly watched every movement of Napoleon.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.

    Billy Budd 1924

  • She looked so like a child, and yet so lurkingly like a woman.

    The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

  • It was a fortunate and charming conceit which prompted the plan of the series, with its half-playful, half-ironic, yet lurkingly poetic suggestions; for in spite of the mood of bantering gaiety which placed the pieces in such mocking juxtaposition, there is, throughout, an undertone of grave and meditative tenderness which it is one of the peculiar properties of MacDowell's art to communicate and enforce.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

  • It was a fortunate and charming conceit which prompted the plan of the series, with its half-playful, half-ironic, yet lurkingly poetic suggestions; for in spite of the mood of bantering gaiety which placed the pieces in such mocking juxtaposition, there is, throughout, an undertone of grave and meditative tenderness which it is one of the peculiar properties of

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • The fellow followed him, lurkingly, all the way home -- on the watch for fit place to pounce upon him, and punish him for doing right when he wanted him to do wrong.

    A Rough Shaking George MacDonald 1864

  • Because, when the feat of the loose-coat skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the steps of a pair of stairs lurkingly, and in covert behind a suit of hangings, or close hid and trussed upon an unbound faggot, it is more pleasing to the

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Because, when the feat of the loose-coat skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the steps of a pair of stairs lurkingly, and in covert behind a suit of hangings, or close hid and trussed upon an unbound faggot, it is more pleasing to the

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Because, when the feat of the loose-coat skirmish happeneth to be done underhand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the steps of a pair of stairs lurkingly, and in covert behind a suit of hangings, or close hid and trussed upon an unbound faggot, it is more pleasing to the Cyprian goddess, and to me also

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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