skulkingly

There I entered skulkingly, as a gameless hunter may, and hid my untrophied head beneath a mound of ancient hay, not without the mustiness of its age.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

But the dog, perceiving the nature of the commodity, drew back with a look of deep reproach, rose precipitately, and with a drooping tail went out skulkingly into the wet gray day.

The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Not hastily, but slow and skulkingly; ceding the ground inch by inch, as though reluctant to leave it.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

There is something more at fault than the language when we turn from or flinch at it; and, as has been intimated, the wretched fault may be skulkingly hidden away in the ambush of ostensible dialect -- that type of dialect so copiously produced by its sole manufacturers, who, utterly stark and bare of the vaguest idea of country life or country people, at once assume that all their "gifted pens" have to do is stupidly to misspell every word; vulgarly mistreat and besloven every theme, however sacred; maim, cripple, and disfigure language never in the vocabulary of the countryman -- then smuggle these monstrosities of either rhyme or prose somehow into the public print that is innocently to smear them broadcast all over the face of the country they insult.

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10 1883