Antonyms for shirk
ʃɜrkshirk

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1. • Avoid

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1. fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrickverb

   avoid (one's assigned duties)

   "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"

   Synonyms:
   monkey, con, play, rook, tinker, bunco, swindle, shrink from, toy, tamper, nobble, gyp, goldbrick, victimize, scam, fiddle, hornswoggle, diddle, gip, short-change, defraud, mulct

2. shirkverb

   avoid dealing with

   "She shirks her duties"

   Synonyms:
   shrink from, goldbrick, fiddle

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1. shirkverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid, evade, neglect

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1. responsible

   a person who does not run away from situations created by him

   he is a not a shirk who runs away from taking responsibilities, he stood by his family and showed how responsible he is.

   Submitted by rinat on June 13, 2017  

2. courtyard

   Submitted by anonymous on March 3, 2020  

How to use shirk in a sentence?

1. Mark Twain:

   Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

2. Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha:

   Managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.

3. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang:

   They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention.

4. Spokeswoman Priyanka Mantha:

   I loaned my campaign money because we were in a startup phase. As the campaign pays me back, I’m applying those dollars to take care of my debt to my obligations, managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.

5. Rahm Emanuel:

   I'm responsible. I don't shirk that responsibility.

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