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UK
/ʃˈɜːkɐ/
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NOUN
- a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
How To Use shirker In A Sentence
- 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.
- To quit is to prove oneself a coward, a shirker, a person of limited character — let's face it, a loser. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
- I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
- In it, they are shown as shirkers and complainers, often sinning against their own God and His law.
- To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
- Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker.
- 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
- 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:
- 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