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Definition

to avoid something — such as a duty or responsibility

She began to shirk her duties and turned to drinking to help deal with the pain.

shirk = avoid

She is motivated, a hard worker, and will even pick up the slack from co-workers who shirk their duties.

shirk = avoid

I cannot shirk the honest truth.

shirk = avoid

There he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was shirking his fair share of work.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

shirking = not doing

He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

shirking = not doing a duty

Nobody shirked — or almost nobody.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

shirked = didn't do their work

"Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought something, I shirked facing something," he mused.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
She began to understand that she had a moral obligation to fire the Pole and that she was shirking it because she found it hard to do.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Joe had shirked saying good-by to him and Fay.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Incredibly, Parker was not held accountable for shirking his duties.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Shirking the point does them no good.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
You're still shirking it.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
You've had a long day — sorry, I know that doesn't begin to cover it — but that doesn't mean that you can shirk your responsibilities.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
"His ear's ripped," he points out accusingly, like I've shirked my duty.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which the first man is desirous of shirking.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
If you good people prefer preaching and shirking to buying my weapons and fighting the rascals, don't blame me.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
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
He's a great patriot, but he's rough and tough on men who shirk their duty.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
There isn't a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work."
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
I felt like I was letting them down, shirking my duty.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper

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