0 past simple and past participle of lurk --
1 to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen, especially because you are about to attack someone or do something wrong: --
I suspected that some slight error lurked in the wording.
Ever since men began fighting each other, the fear of war has lurked in people's minds.
And it was also left to the racial nationalists to point out the issue that lurked just below the surface of all discussions of intermarriage, an issue often left unspoken.
Behind a facade of charm, wit, arrogance, and on occasion callousness, also lurked deep insecurities and, in particular, doubts about his creativity.
In other cases, insinuated meanings lurked uncertainly in the shadows of open ' ' ones.
Clearly, erudition, scholarship, and rhetorical persuasion were central to the sacerdotium; just as, clearly, the imperium lurked close behind.
Underlying this emphasis there lurked the suggestion that women did not belong in parliament, unless they turned into honorary men.
Moreover, political tests lurked in welfare provision as in other arenas under the regime's authority.
