skulking

• The one-armed man had been skulking, and doing it most furtively. —  030 - Spook Hole
• You are unduly harsh whenever you speak of him Nay, I've told you I have nothing against him, but the fellow does have an irritating habit of vanishing completely and then reappearing when you are present--skulking around in the shadows.
• For a second the tears trembled in her eyes at the thought that no one had waited for her, but in a minute Elizabeth Bruce slipped away, and Geraldine Montgomery in her leghorn hat was treading the homeward way Behind her, she told herself, an old gipsy woman was skulking--she had seen the ostrich feathers, the "rare lace upon the simple rich dress It was just behind the store that the gipsy and Geraldine both disappeared The store turned one blank wall upon Carlyle Road--which was the home road--and Elizabeth came round the corner sharply and then stood still. —  An Australian Lassie
• His gait is low and skulking, and his look bold and vicious. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• I wish you'd found him as I did--skulking behind the curtain. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story

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