skulker

as in skunk
someone who acts in a sly and secret manner she surprised the skulker eavesdropping beneath her window

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Noun
  • That included building a short block wall to separate the deck from the yard — and prevent skunks, possums and other critters from creeping under the deck — build an open fence to surround the property, and add a swale to retain rainwater.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Then other critters came to feast on the skunk’s leftovers, the incredible video shows.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the heat of its bloodlust, the weasel had killed the entire flock.
    Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • There’s narrative justice in lumping him with the weasel, the depraved, the criminal, the pedophile.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Testing their ability to parse through patchy visual information, the puzzles prompted participants to identify ambiguous black-and-white images of objects and of animals, such as snakes, snails, and spiders.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • The exact location of the den complex are withheld for the snakes' safety, according to Bachhuber.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Read the full Scorpio Daily Horoscope Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Considering a sneak attack?
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 11 May 2025
  • Nike has other picks on sale—pretty much every category on their site has some kind of promotion going on—including a bunch of top-selling sneaks.
    Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Although ostensibly set 15 years after Nora stormed out on Torvald and her three children, the play takes place in a theatrical present that has one antique-looking shoe in the late 19th century and one whimsical sneaker in the early 21st.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
  • Caitlin Clark started the 2025 WNBA season lacing up a pair of custom Nike sneakers.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 19 May 2025
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“Skulker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skulker. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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