A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.
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Examples for "skulker "
Examples for "skulker "
1 These men would fire to kill on any skulker near the camp.
2 And Godefroy, the skulker , was glad to run for the marsh.
3 You're a thief among thieves, Tom Stone: a bully, a coward, a skulker .
4 The skulker had gotten all the way into the room before he'd even noticed.
5 The Provost Marshal apparently demanded the skulker 's name, and wrote it in a book.
1 Thoroughly squelched, the malingerer flushed, mumbled an apology and held out his hand.
2 I am not a lunatic, not a malingerer , but a demon?
3 Pemberton is no malingerer , Pemberton said as Serena slowly raised herself to a sitting position.
4 To some of them the neurotic patient was a swinger of the lead, a malingerer .
5 The fellow's a palpable malingerer , and his being here makes it ever so much worse.
1 The sham is often so perfect an image of the reality that even the shammer is deceived.
2 You are such a lovely shammer .
3 After examining Sergeant Mock's feet for twenty minutes, and testing the skin as well, he pronounced Mock a shammer .
4 They are shammers and deceivers.
5 "He's quite right, sir," said Harry Girdwood, "you are inimitable as a shammer . "
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