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shirking
adjective as in loafing
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noun as in avoidance
noun as in evasion
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Example Sentences
The more campaign postcards I wrote, the more I started to wonder: Who were these people shirking their civic duty?
With an audience of predominantly women on the airwaves and in the studio, he cultivated an aggressive and flashy style – interrogating guests on a variety of subjects, never shirking from controversy.
When he put together a manifesto for Black Dada in 2008, he wrote, “History is in fact an incomplete cube shirking linearity.”
I feel like in some ways, the notion of apocalypse is just about shirking our responsibility as humans to take charge of what's happening on this planet.
However he decides to tackle the challenge of catching the first English club to win four consecutive top-flight titles, Arteta knows there is no way of shirking that task.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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