lurksome

comparative more lurksome · superlative most lurksome

1. Characterised or marked by lurking; lurky

   Shrink not in fear of lurksome difficulties or disturbances.

   1918, Coal and Coal Trade Journal

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   Whereas, The strong and lurksome hand of death has again entered the home of one of our members and taken from it our beloved brother and treasurer, [...]

   1914, Typographical Journal, volume 44

   Next she fetched the large stone mortar where it hunkered down all lurksome in Darkhouse.

   2014, Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things