Synonyms for shirk

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shurk

Phonetic Transcription : ʃɜrk

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Définition of shirk

Origin : 1630s, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) "a needy, disreputable parasite" [OED], perhaps from German schurke "scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see shark (n.)). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally in slang. Related: Shirked; shirking.

verb avoid, get out of responsibility

Example sentences :

We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

You work till you are tired of it; then you go off and shirk, and call it studying.
Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray

And here the demagogue arose and bade her shirk no issue, even the red flag.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

I do not court publicity, but I cannot shirk my duty because it entails that.
Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

Sick of life—to tell you the truth; but what would have been the good to shirk it—in—in—that way?
Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad

If you put any duty upon women they are not going to shirk it.
Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

When it is a scout's duty to do something, he dare not shirk.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

Mildred could not shirk the most important task that had yet been asked of her.
Extract from : « The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army » by Margaret Vandercook

He had lived as an aristocrat—it was incumbent on him, he said, not to shirk death as one.
Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall

Bob was not a fellow to shirk when the time of settlement came.
Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic

Antonyms for shirk

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