How To Use Shirk In A Sentence

Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
Why should ordinary Koreans pay taxes for those shirkers who educate their children abroad and avoid military service duties?
He is not a shirker, but he went into his shell when faced with some rough stuff. Times, Sunday Times
By ignoring their epistemic and metaphysical brokenness, we are shirking our Christian duty to truly show love for our neighbor.

And if the socialist shirkers riot, shoot them!
Rudy Wittshirk, an outdoorsman and occasional commentary writer in these pages, once told me that growing up in New York made him a better outdoorsman -- street smarts translates to trail smarts, because the common theme is awareness. Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
I didn't shirk my duties. I visited the sick and I preached the gospel.
Any homilist who fails to address this is shirking his duty. The Burning Hell
It calls for ‘responsibility,’ then shirks it with surreal cravenness.
God is only a word bandied about by the pseudo-intellectual, an illusion nourished by the ignorant, a luxury cultivated by the rich and the famous and an excuse used by the shirker.
I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. Times, Sunday Times
After football and prayers the boys sat cross-legged on the floor while Faisal spoke to them about "shirk" - the sin of worshipping Gods other than Allah. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility.
Shirker " the appearance is greatly filler cloth sits bag, outer use more coriaceous or canvas.
When you're an agony aunt you have a huge responsibility to your readers, and I wasn't about to shirk mine. RESCUING ROSE
He loved his children, and if a boy could be saved by so simple a means as "strap-oil," he was not the man to shirk his duty. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
They shirked responsibility, put the blame on others, finding refuge in generalities and then in an unthinking bustle of activity.
There is no room in our organization for shirkers.
IMHO, indeed it is true that most ranks above that of Inspector (and including a lot of day shirker Inspectors who hide in offices) have sold out their collective backsides to climb the greasy pole. I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Discipline in the company was strict and no one shirked.
Rapacallion: "Will def still JB for these reasons - Intelliscreen - Im not the most organized ..." iAirmanshirk: "yeah cuz the word noob totally applied to me not understanding an article ....." lilngineer: "YouTube works if it's setup as a new phone. The iPhone Blog
The young Karl Marx criticised the utopian egalitarianism of the German socialists' Gotha programme by saying that socialists had to accept that good workers would expect the appropriate rewards, but would also expect the problem of shirkers and poor workers to be addressed. Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture | Will Hutton
In this respect, Bedlam was very ahead of its time - tackling issues (albeit within the guise of a 'chiller') that most other films of this time would only shirk from. Irish Blogs
But the role of educator is a role which responsible persons dare not shirk. The Winds of Change in the New Nations
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will just be that much harder to deal with next month.
You're supposed to tidy up, so stop shirking and do it!
Here Moses claims God is shirking responsibility for his people.
The couples variously consider the underclass shirkers or victims, but the savviest view the poor with fear. Times, Sunday Times
Surrender is not the same as shirking one's responsibilities or assumption of passivity.
Every yard has its boozers, shirkers, grumps, gamblers and cack-handed riders.
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
But you did not shirk it, and that is why we are sharing a drink and I am prepared to return the favour -- to even the score, as it were. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Discipline in the company was strict and no one shirked.
He was soft-spoken and earnest, and not a pacifist or a shirker. How the End Begins
They could not shirk their duty; they could not afford the luxury of self-doubt or introspective musing.
Outsiders don't always take SSHRC (always pronounced "shirk") as seriously as SSHRC would like. Lex Luthor Hearts Superman
This shirking of my writing does not bode well for my prospects when I get a ‘real’ job.
The derelict soldier shirked his duties
She shirks her duties
All through those weeks of killings the state and Central government kept on shirking their responsibilities.
When you're an agony aunt you have a huge responsibility to your readers, and I wasn't about to shirk mine. RESCUING ROSE
This is what Clay Shirky calls failing informatively.
Both of them, not known to shirk work, have taken upon themselves the onerous task of touring Europe to market Kerala.
A determined burglar will not shirk from breaking a window to gain entry.
He don't have time for those what don't care to work, and he'd sooner drown you than put up with idlers or shirkers.
It does point out that there was an Austrian-German word for a sturgeon that was similar and also that the word shirk was being used in English before this to mean a person of little use, and a cheater. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
Don't call me a shirker. Globe and Mail
Never one to shirk from a challenge, I replied: Some friends of mine decided to remodel their kitchen. November 2003
Whatever the detail of the debates over incapacity benefit, there is no doubt that his sympathies do not lie with those he would consider shirkers.
Added to these things, Sarah had observed of late that Judy showed an inclination to shirk her duties, and had a dangerous habit of "mooning" while she was at the wash tub. The Miller of Old Church
Rather than shirking from the term palliative care, they have thrown their weight and credibility behind it in a further effort to educate clinicians and consumers about palliative care and to reduce stigma associated with the term. Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog
A shirker gets a white feather? Globe and Mail
Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory". In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and The Red Redmaynes
We are the Marthas -- trudging our daily rounds, oppressed with sense of the duties that must be done, with the righteous feeling of the hardness of our lot; and these light-hearts, these trouble-shirkers, this corkiness of youth, exasperate us enormously. Once Aboard the Lugger
She had a lot to think about, and was not one to shirk such an exercise when there was cause. A WORM OF DOUBT
Elsewhere, and just hitting the screens, he shirks the dotage and decrepitude forcing him into the quiet life for a final fling at what he does best.
She shirked her schoolwork, preferred to spend her time drawing, but aced every test and so managed to scrape by with C's.
In practice it means a set of extremely rotten values: greed, self-absorption, atomization, suspiciousness, superstition, lying (especially to ones' self), responsibility-shirking, resentment ('coveting'), and ultimately, nihilism ('rapture'). Your Right Hand Thief
It excused irrational and unreasonable behaviour, allowed people to shirk their duties.
And they have suggested strongly that America is shirking its moral responsibility when it refuses to venture abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Phil was as cool and calm as though he were going to gently tund a small fag for shirking. Acton's Feud A Public School Story
It exposes the shirking scrimshank, who presumably preserves his legs from unnecessary exertion. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
First and foremost - tell a time travel story that does not shirk from a confrontation with the paradoxes. MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction?
De voir fleurir – comme le ditClay Shirky – un millier de fleurs et voir remplacéles fruitsgâtéset trop ... Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab
[FN#57] There is a play upon words in this line, founded upon the double meaning of the word shirk, sharing (or partnership) and polytheism or the attributing partners or equals to God (as in the Trinity), the one unpardonable sin of the Muslim religious code. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
‘It is a matter of law and not of fact,’ she said, adding that in her opinion, to decline to hear the matter would be shirking her responsibility as a judge.
They mutual shirk responsibility, you can well communicate with them.
For all the catwalk good looks, which he desires doubtless to preserve, he is no shirker of rugby's coarser elements. Times, Sunday Times
The ultimate consequence of this idea, and one that Augustine did not shirk from, was that unbaptized infants are damned. Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Mistress Wynter, at that fat soggy thing, that lag-last, so shiftless and useless about the house, lazing from rath to latte, and then to complete their exasperation, miching off into the woods to shirk her work so that the whole company had to turn out with a mort of trouble to hunt for the leg-trape. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
The lighting of the stove and the provision of the tea were done on a rota basis with nobody shirking their duty including the washing up.
He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
Foerster reported that employers often described the Italian worker as “lazy, shirking, tricky, a time server” and complained that Italians were known—just as slaves were once known—to “feign sickness in order not to have to work in bad weather.” A Renegade History of the United States
A music teacher in rural Wisconsin, my cousin Becky can hardly be mistaken for a shirker or a cheat. Hans Johnson: The Bullying Style in American Politics
Instead, they should be calling him the worst kind of shirker, someone so un-American maybe Congresswoman Bachmann should be investigating him. David M. Abromowitz: The Plumber Can't Fix the Leaks
Much like the energy industry regulators who were so busy with hookers and cocain (supplied by industry lobbyists) that they willingly shirked all responsibility. Think Progress » WaMu lenders rapped about their wealth as they fueled the housing bubble: ‘I like big bucks and I cannot lie.’
I hope the government would not shirk its responsibility and discharge its moral and legal duty by taking stringent action against such venomous statement.
I can never be accused of shirking my responsibilities.
Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth.
Your columnists would be shirking their responsibility if they ignored these factors.
Vote, it says, or you have shirked your religious duty.
If not, they are shirking their duty - both to the national defense and to the very goal of diversity that they profess to cherish.
You guessed it: the big phone and cable companies who remain unregulated while the FCC shirks its responsibilities. Josh Silver: Why it's "Radical" to Fight Corporate Control of Government (And Why Net Neutrality Is a Remedy)
a certain young married lady, when she managed to shirk her rather filial duties to her husband, who was much about the verandas, purblindly feeling his way with a stick, as he walked up and down, or sitting opaque behind the glasses that preserved what was left of his sight, while his wife read to him. Ragged Lady — Complete
Also, the author of the majority opinion is not exactly known as a shirker on such issues, and she apparently didn’t see any point in bringing it up. The Volokh Conspiracy » When One Federal Agency Sues Another:
Five hundred men were caught shirking their duty; one out of every ten was selected for execution, which is why the procedure was called decimation analogous to our word decimal, that is, one-tenth. The Spartacus War
Paddy can be clever and quick-witted enough when presented with an opportunity to shirk the duties set forth in his indentures, but otherwise he's as weak-minded as a fish.
The root cause is specialization amongst the lower ranks in the Force, which is a cover for shirking responsibility.
Even more suspiciously the word shirk and shark around this time held this same identical meaning-though there's no indication why someone might apply a word meaning "cheat" to a huge weird fish. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
This captain of whom I speak was a padded shape -- shirker from the front line -- a parader of his uniform before women. The Day of the Beast
Because shareholders can not tell how hard managers are exerting themselves on their behalf, managers have an incentive to shirk.
I'd be shirking my duty if I didn't warn him.
Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker.
Clay Shirky used (coined?) the term mental transaction costs to describe the problem with using micropayments (small payments to download articles or music). EconLog: Behavioral Economics and Rationality Archives
But the thing is, the rail network is not likely to make any more leaps and bounds if it keeps being shirky and apologetic.
The original idea behind the phrase "inalienable rights" was that rights are inalienable because they are correlative to duties and responsibilities that exist objectively and transcend the will, and that we are therefore not allowed to shirk. Rand and "Inalienable Rights"
She had a lot to think about, and was not one to shirk such an exercise when there was cause. A WORM OF DOUBT
The micro-payments that people were talking about when Shirky wrote this eventually came in the form of "eyeballs," supposedly enraptured by online advertising. Archive 2009-04-01
The problems of shirking are certainly not limited to law school faculty either -- there are many, many faculty who turn off the research pump (or at least dial it down dramatically) once the tenure is achieved? Balkinization
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
In it, they are shown as shirkers and complainers, often sinning against their own God and His law.
They mutual shirk responsibility, you can well communicate with them.
Mr Warwick, who has had the goats for a year, classes them as volunteer groundsmen and says they are relentless workers who never shirk their duties.
He developed into quite an expert fisherman; nor, when the boats came in, did he shirk work, but manfully rolled up his trousers and helped carry water and "gib" mackerel as if he enjoyed it. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
We will do so without shirking our responsibility to the people of this district.
She doesn't shirk from the realities that surround the economy, but neither does she give in to those who always seem to see the doom and gloom, rather than the shimmer of hope. Obama aide hints at second stimulus, tries to slam door on tax talk
Soon they were slacking off in school, shirking responsibilities, and turning to harder drugs for a better high.
He still shirks away in fear when he sees it, though his love for the bouncy balls has helped him overcome — he has to either go past the hose to get the ball or take the ball from the same hand the hose is in. Charlie’s Best Birthday Ever! « Bodhicitta
Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never be called again. England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
A reader would understandably begin to suspect that he might be shirking his imaginative responsibilities here by offering us nothing more than an unsympathetic portrait of an unsympathetic character.
You're supposed to tidy up, so stop shirking and do it!
Shirked off, Arthur follows Joan to the bathroom and, as he watches her, his eyes click on like an old-fashioned radio console.
No decent Aussie wants to support queue jumping or shirking responsibility.
To quit is to prove oneself a coward, a shirker, a person of limited character — let's face it, a loser. Times, Sunday Times
We in the Congress can't shirk our responsibility.
Our modern capitalist world makes it all the more seductive to shirk the responsibility of cooking.
She suffers, true; she complains, also true; but she has not shirked her duty, nor shied away from pain.
Our class, some students are particularly vulnerable to emotional, but also like to shirk their responsibilities.
I would shirk my daily responsibilities, lay in front of the TV for hours, smoking and losing myself in what was on.
Not being, like Payne, a poet and a lord of language; and, as he admits, in his notes, not being an initiate in the methods of Arabic Prosody, Burton shirked the isometrical rendering of the verse. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will just be that much harder to deal with next month.
Normally, I’d shirk from the suggestion of having a “pro” wrestler play the lead in a Marvel blockbuster, but given the character in question, casting anyone lacking the physique of such a wrestler would simply set things up poorly. Stonetable.org » For Midgard! For Asgard! For Odin!
Five hundred men were caught shirking their duty; one out of every ten was selected for execution, which is why the procedure was called decimation analogous to our word decimal, that is, one-tenth. The Spartacus War
But he's going to do it shamefully and in full recognisance that he's basically shirking his intellectual responsibilities to the world.
Some go to the other extreme, shirking classroom encounters for more bureaucratic enticements.
He had shirked no task, betrayed no trust, forsworn no oath. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
But you did not shirk it, and that is why we are sharing a drink and I am prepared to return the favour -- to even the score, as it were. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
A determined burglar will not shirk from breaking a window to gain entry.
Yet rejection of DIY killing and eating pet animals is increasingly cast as "squeamish" - shirking a necessary evil like cleaning up vomit instead of shirking voluntary and unnecessary violence. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
As Clay Shirky writes quite shinily here, a series of lawsuits and circumstances cut off pretty much all other music distribution channels online. Archive 2009-05-01
Insightful without being pedantic, learned but not overbearing, the book is full of humorous anecdotes while never shirking the factual responsibility of the historian.
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will just be that much harder to deal with next month.
Who takes action, and with what promptness, against teachers seen to be even brazenly shirking their duties?
Is it not true that we habitually refuse to take seriously His teaching about man; that we water down His paradoxes and conventionalize His sayings; that we blunt the sharpness of His precepts, and shirk the tremendous sternness of His demands? Religious Reality
It was asked on CNN this morning of wone of their guests, who was talking about the regulatory requirements these companies consistently shirk, whether those requirements are "cost prohibitive. Massey Energy and CEO active in political donating
“In the event that he shirks from [being a good Hungarian],” the secret police colonel noted, “we can always rely on [the name is blacked out] to put pressure on him.” Enemies of the People
Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger, Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads
‘The government has steered clear of the problem and shirked its duty,’ he said.

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