shirking

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noun

The act of one who shirks.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shirk
nounshirking (plural shirkings)

plural shirkings

  1. The act of one who shirks.

    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 […]

    1 more example

    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.

    1983 December 3, Walta Borawski, “The Saga of Baby Divine (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe evasion of work or duty

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slackingsoldieringgoofing offgoldbricking
Broader
evasionescapedodging
Also see
soldiering

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

shirking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shirking

MLA

“shirking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shirking. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shirking,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shirking.

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