Synonyms for shirk
ʃɜrkshirk

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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 (in a mean way), evade, get off from

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1. shirkverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid, evade, neglect

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1. List of paraphrases for "shirk":

   evade, escape, circumvent, avoid, elude

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How to use shirk in a sentence?

1. Marco Rubio:

   What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it.

2. Rahm Emanuel:

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

3. Scott Swift:

   Put simply, we will continue to exercise freedom of the seas for all nations, because we know from painful past experience, to shirk this responsibility and obligation, puts much more at risk than any one nation's maritime interests.

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. Stacey Plaskett:

   Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.