Shirking
[ʃɜ:kɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shirk
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Examples
- Now, that's shirking. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Shirking won't do for me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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