How To Use Shirker In A Sentence
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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.
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To quit is to prove oneself a coward, a shirker, a person of limited character — let's face it, a loser.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
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In it, they are shown as shirkers and complainers, often sinning against their own God and His law.
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To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
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Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker.
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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For all the catwalk good looks, which he desires doubtless to preserve, he is no shirker of rugby's coarser elements.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and
The Red Redmaynes
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A shirker gets a white feather?
Globe and Mail
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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
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Don't call me a shirker.
Globe and Mail
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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.
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He was soft-spoken and earnest, and not a pacifist or a shirker.
How the End Begins
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Every yard has its boozers, shirkers, grumps, gamblers and cack-handed riders.
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The couples variously consider the underclass shirkers or victims, but the savviest view the poor with fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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There is no room in our organization for shirkers.
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Shirker " the appearance is greatly filler cloth sits bag, outer use more coriaceous or canvas.
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I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
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I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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And if the socialist shirkers riot, shoot them!
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He is not a shirker, but he went into his shell when faced with some rough stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why should ordinary Koreans pay taxes for those shirkers who educate their children abroad and avoid military service duties?