shirked; shirking; shirks
shirker
noun
Examples of shirk in a Sentence
He's too conscientious to shirk his duty.
He never shirked from doing his duty.
They did their duty without shirking or complaining.
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Firms are also shirking responsibility for duties and seeking to pawn tariff costs off on suppliers.
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 22 May 2025
Just a few years earlier, in a 1993 profile in Vibe magazine, Mr. Combs had seemed to shirk all responsibility.
—Ben Sisario, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
On Thursday — on Opening Day! — the state auditor’s office is scheduled to release a report that could say whether the team has shirked its maintenance responsibilities at Angel Stadium.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Both regulators and Attorney General William Tong have accused the company of shirking its responsibility to clean up the property, hampering redevelopment opportunities.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 22 May 2025
Just a few years earlier, in a 1993 profile in Vibe magazine, Mr. Combs had seemed to shirk all responsibility.
—Ben Sisario, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
On Thursday — on Opening Day! — the state auditor’s office is scheduled to release a report that could say whether the team has shirked its maintenance responsibilities at Angel Stadium.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Both regulators and Attorney General William Tong have accused the company of shirking its responsibility to clean up the property, hampering redevelopment opportunities.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shirk
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“Shirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shirk. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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shirk
verb
: to get out of doing especially what one ought to do
: avoid sense 3, evade
shirked their duty
shirker
noun
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