skulker

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Serkis soars as Sméagol sinks, and if the next two Hobbit films hold hope, it is that this Peter Lorre-esque skulker will get more chances to work his evil magic.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2012

Gradually he connected the skulker in the third row with the occasional byline above movie reviews.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2012

The question of relief corruption, long a skulker in the flickering outskirts of national politics, suddenly leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance.

From Time Magazine Archive

And who—” He stays his self-asked interrogatory, seeing that the skulker has paused too—at the farther end of the plank, which he has now reached.

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

Ducking a skulker for being asleep on his watch.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir