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Synonyms for shirker
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : shur-ker |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɜr kər |
Définition of shirker
Origin :- 1799, agent noun from shirk.
- noun slacker
- Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?
- Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
- Nor was there a shirker among the men—and all because the leader was Forrest.
- Extract from : « A Little Union Scout » by Joel Chandler Harris
- Insist that you are no shirker, no coward, that you are brave even to daring.
- Extract from : « The Victorious Attitude » by Orison Swett Marden
- She was about to set Portia hastily down in her mind as on the order of a shirker.
- Extract from : « Marjorie Dean College Freshman » by Pauline Lester
- Grey Bird was not a 'shirker' at any time, but he was surpassing himself on this occasion.
- Extract from : « Settling Day » by Nat Gould
- There is no place for a shirker or a quitter in a real Unitarian church.
- Extract from : « A Backward Glance at Eighty » by Charles A. Murdock
- Just as 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' so fatalism is the last refuge of a shirker.
- Extract from : « The Human Machine » by E. Arnold Bennett
- It would have been a condemnation of you if any one of us had been a shirker.
- Extract from : « Carry On » by Coningsby Dawson
- I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment.
- Extract from : « The Half-Hearted » by John Buchan
- The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Heaven » by May Sinclair
Antonyms for shirker
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