How to pronounce “skulk” in English

for political purposes, or simply to feel part of something.They skulked up to the cash register, saying in the hushed tones of a John Le Carre character, they wanted to buy the book.'If somebody asks whether we stock it or not, think carefully before you reply,' we were told.

A coyote. It was standing there watching her.It didn't look like the starving ones that used to skulk around LA, desperate for a cat to eat, some garbage scraps.This one was well fed, big, with coarse, brownish gray fur that looked prickly to the touch.

Taylor is a really-- he's not your typical science nerd.He's not over in the corner sort of skulking at the science fair.He's very switched on.

here's Mark hello hello can you all hear me okayeven those sort of people at the back who are skulking like teenagers can youhear okay okay that's good so um psychologists at the University of

Weiss: Okay, so then you get a little older, you know, your body chemistry changes, and I entered into kind of a sullen phase in my life. And during this sullen phase, this ishow I looked, and I would skulk around in doorways as you do, just kind ah. Well, you did, you just kind of dressa certain way, one at a certain face and you'd find a cool doorway and you can lean in it, and you'd be

I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty.I like sullen, crab-scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl.I like, oh-heavens, my-gracious, land's-sake words, such as trixie, tucker, gentile, horrid.

Like, come on. Like, grapes and winemaking.With the very strange and kind of the secret and just the image of someone like skulking through a vineyard at night or smuggling somethingacross borders. That kind of spy vibe.

And a reporter will protect his source, to the extent that maybe he or she will go to jail before they reveal the identity of his source.We have what they call tradecraft, which is a fancy word for skulking around, to prevent people from understandingcontact between an intelligence officer and a foreign source.