Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shirks duty or danger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who shirks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
shirks a duty or responsibility. - noun One who is
lazy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, they should be calling him the worst kind of shirker, someone so un-American maybe Congresswoman Bachmann should be investigating him.
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Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never be called again.
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He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would.
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Also, the author of the majority opinion is not exactly known as a shirker on such issues, and she apparently didn’t see any point in bringing it up.
The Volokh Conspiracy » When One Federal Agency Sues Another: 2009
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Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again.
The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Humphry Ward 1885
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He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would.
The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Humphry Ward 1885
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"He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and
The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911
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He was soft-spoken and earnest, and not a pacifist or a shirker.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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He was soft-spoken and earnest, and not a pacifist or a shirker.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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A music teacher in rural Wisconsin, my cousin Becky can hardly be mistaken for a shirker or a cheat.
Hans Johnson: The Bullying Style in American Politics Hans Johnson 2011
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