shirker

The answer is obvious: Because he's a coward and a shirker, vastly out of his depth, painfully outmatched and fatally incapable of handling a crisis of any magnitude, much less this one.

Yesterday, Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman highlighted some peak social distance shaming when she tweeted a photo of someone’s window plastered with posters revealing that their upstairs neighbor was a social-distance shirker.

Consent, or at least acquiescence, for Osbornomics was founded on claims that reckless spending by Labour was at the root of Britain’s economic ailments, fused with a narrative that valuable hard-earned taxpayers’ money was frittered away on the undeserving poor, the “scrounger” and the “shirker”.

My core has been like a phantom employee, a shirker who’s on the payroll but spends all day playing Candy Crush on his phone.

A shirker, she tells us, is someone who runs away.