skulker

IPA: skˈʌɫkɝ

Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.
One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
One who moves in a stealthy or furtive way; one who comes or goes while trying to avoid detection.
One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.

Examples of "skulker" in Sentences

When a local "skulker" is killed, all the old fears are reawakened.
So Bissage is the skulker they are looking for at the Franklin Institute.
To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with.
If a man can possibly avoid it, let him never go to the hospital: for he will be called a "skulker," or
I felt the bile come up in my throat with fear - but I was armed, wasn't I, and he probably wasn't, and I'd been a pretty useful night-skulker in my time, too.
Rashleigh, who had never before worked at any species of manual labour, was quickly termed a skulker, and was obliged to endure a double share of the oppression of his overseer on this account.
Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light