Shirking
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Shirking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of shirk.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of shirk.
More Meanings
- The act of one who shirks.
Example Sentences
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.
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 […]
Word Forms
- shirkings
Synonyms for shirking
Depending on context, synonyms include goldbricking, soldiering, slacking.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include soldiering, goldbricking, slacking, avoiding, shifting, bypassing.
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