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Neglect an obligation
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shirk
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) "a needy, disreputable parasite" [OED], perhaps from German schurke "scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see shark (n.)). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. one who shirks vb. 1 (context transitive English) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. 2 (context intransitive English) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. 3 To procure ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle , shrink from , goldbrick ] avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
Usage examples of shirk.
He staggered and barely caught himself, hand grasping at dirt, claws shirking out to scrape earth and send it spattering to the ground.
Charens became a leader of the poor, demanding reforms: such as compelling the rich to pay taxes, which irksome duty they had thitherto managed most featly to shirk.
Land of Cockaigne, where they could shirk work in luxury instead of squalor.
English vocal style of the future will have to be modelled after the German style, which, instead of shirking difficult consonants boldly tackles and utilizes them.
His feeling was that a lot of doctors shirk their responsibilities when it comes to death and dying.
Please inform President Grozny that the United States will not launch any missiles at the Russian Federation or her allies, but we will not shirk our responsibilities in defending the State of Israel.
He pounded Pitts for his continuing failure to deliver his dissertation, and for shirking his responsibilities to MIT and the Guggenheim Foundation to complete his protracted doctoral program.
Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good.
The good priest did not shirk what might have made the readiest of soldiers nervous.
Some of the boys shirked, wasting time and machinery by not replacing the small bobbins when they ran out.
Was it a shirking of plain duty on my part that wish - that ever-present hope - that the murderous company of fanatics who had pursued the stolen slipper from its ancient resting-place to London, should succeed in recovering it?
He had found out that the saving so effected would be material to Lopez, and had resolved that there should be no shirking of the truth in what he was prepared to do.
She shirks her chores, and she is always sneaking off to watch the Warders practice their swords.
Some day he’d have the entire Army in his files, and then let the bheromen try to shirk their sworn service to the crown!
Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside.