Crossword clues for shirker
shirker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shirker \Shirk"er\, n.
One who shirks.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, agent noun from shirk.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who shirks a duty or responsibility. 2 One who is lazy.
WordNet
n. a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) [syn: slacker]
Usage examples of "shirker".
He was stubborn, but he was also smart—the worst kind of shirker, Chert thought.
Anybody who does show any mental problems therefore must be a shirker or a saboteur and is imprisoned or shot.
I couldn't see him, but I could tell that he wasn't changing colors, because Thaddeus started taunting and insulting him, and finally told the crowd that he was going to refund their money for that particular exhibit, because obviously the man was a shirker with no sense of moral responsibility, and that even though a pale blue man was pretty odd, it wasn't what they had paid to see.
Had they been shirkers or men of little quality, he would have dealt with the matter summarily, punishing them and not listening for an instant.
He plied elbows like rams and laid a path through the pack of shirkers amidships.