All 3 Uses
shirk
in
Gone Girl
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- A stalker determined to befriend Amy, and when Amy shirked her... "Do you have any information about Amy, Noelle?"†
p. 131.6 *shirked = avoided
- The proposal was never completed, I assume because Nick realized he wasn't going to ever understand his once-distant father; and because Nick was shirking all "head of the family" duties; and because I wasn't expressing any anger about my new life.†
p. 141.1shirking = avoiding
- He glides through life with that charming-Nicky grin, his beloved-child entitlement, his fibs and shirkings, his shortcomings and selfishness, and no one calls him on anything.†
p. 235.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(shirk) to avoid something -- such as a duty or responsibility
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)