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shirk·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbrickingnoun
the evasion of work or duty
Synonyms:
slacking, goldbricking, goofing off, soldiering, soldiership
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #62486 | evading | |
| #79201 | slacking | |
| #125974 | shirking | |
| #134616 | soldiering |
How to use shirking in a sentence?
Youve got 535 people flying into the House, in the Senate, each week from all across this nation ; you have millions of people that visit our nations capitaleach year. If we are not doing something like this, we would be shirking our responsibilities.
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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