What is "shirks"

Usage examples of "shirks".

She shirks her chores, and she is always sneaking off to watch the Warders practice their swords.

Thus, when true lovers meet, love disturbs and almost petrifies all the functions of the body, both physical and spiritual: whence the tongue refuses to speak, the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and every limb shirks its proper duty.

The Power it holds will destroy a man who shirks his responsibilities to it.

She shirks nothing I am aware of, counting the finished task more important than the doing.

It is an unwritten law of the ranch that everybody on the place must share in this work and if anyone shirks his duty he must either promptly mend his ways or else quit his job.