All 3 Uses of
shirk
in
Bleak House
- Shirking and sharking in all their many varieties have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong it was in some off-hand manner never meant to go right.†
Chpt 1-3
- Shirking won't do for me.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- The same objection applies to a workhouse, supposing I had the patience to be evaded and shirked, and handed about from post to pillar in trying to get him into one, which is a system that I don't take kindly to."†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(shirk) to avoid something -- such as a duty or responsibility