shirker
Example Sentences
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In the car, it is a navigator, a radio, a nagging distractor and a ready accessory to manslaughter; at work, it is both a vigilant assistant and an eager fellow shirker.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2018
He is the savior and the sage instead of the selfish shirker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2016
This shirker, this ingrate, had taken the money and run.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
Prior is no shirker but the mind forgot to inform his body of the wisdom of staying behind the white line.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2011
Patriotism is a ray of inner light, and may never even come to a glow of carnal courage; on the other hand, it is the greatest mistake to impute cowardice to the shirker.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
