skive
Example Sentences
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Employers tend to provide workers control over their work when they trust and believe that will contribute back to the company rather than to skive off work.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018
It’s dishonest to defraud a religious organization by promising to perform charity work and then faking an illness to skive off.
From Slate • Oct. 19, 2016
So imagine how hard it is to skive.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2015
Give more people who can’t skive off work during the week the chance to attend.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2014
If I was Grant Burch or Ross Wilcox or any of the council-house kids from down Wellington End, I'd just skive off and hop over that stile and follow the bridleway to wherever it went.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.