skulk

“See what I mean? If you skulk around here thinking about attacking him, you will make him nervous.”

You could skulk back to the Other Place.

Late winter sunlight casts long shadows from workers crossing the parking lot, where stray cats skulk among the cars.

Backstage, Swisher said, Gates “skulked into the green room,” nursing his wounds after being equated to Satan.

Unlike earlier generations of royals who skulked in and out of the hospital alone, Charles left his recent treatment with Camilla by his side, providing the support most people would expect from their spouses.