What does shirking mean?
Shirking means present participle and gerund of shirk.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of shirk.
1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.
Use shirking when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shirking means present participle and gerund of shirk.
Common synonyms include goldbricking, goofing off, soldiering, slacking.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
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