Shirk is valid Scrabble Word

Is shirk a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is shirk valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for SHIRK in dictionary:

VERB:

to avoid work or a duty
avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)
be unwilling to do (something difficult)
avoid (duty or work)
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
avoid (one\'s assigned duties)
avoid dealing with

NOUN:

a person who shirks.
One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
person who shirks

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to avoid work or duty

Words related to SHIRK

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Words that contain SHIRK

shirks13 shirked15 shirker14 shirkers15 shirking16

How to use SHIRK in a sentence

Lorimer, believe me, that child will never shirk her duty.
One is the indulgence of a soft, vacillating policy by the parent which permits a child to shirk his duties and to escape from the natural results of his misdeeds.
Instead of serving your masters faithfully, which is pleasing in the sight of your heavenly Master, you are idle, and shirk your work.
On the grade above the Blixen ranch Shirk looked back and saw the men coming and had little thought of danger.
Shirk looked back and to his relief saw the Indian off his horse.
Though a Wesleyan she could not shirk the appointed ceremonial.
He was of a vagrant disposition, and an inveterate shirk.
The Better Thing It is better to die for the flag, For its red and its white and its blue, Than to hang back and shirk and to lag And let the flag sink out of view.
He had suddenly become aware that he had an unpleasant duty to perform, and to shirk a duty was a thing impossible to him.
I attributed the feeling to heat, and tried to pull myself together by poking fun at Herbert, whom I accused of wilfully keeping the trains late in order to shirk handling them.

He who has dared to become a parent can never honorably shirk the duty of nurture.
It is always possible to be a Christian under the most unfavorable conditions, provided the Christian does not shirk the inevitable cross.
There was one thing none of us might shirk, and that was regular attendance at kirk on Sunday.
Sir Redmond was not the man to shirk duty because it happened to be disagreeable, as the regiment whose name was engraved upon his cane could testify.
When God gave us our own, he did not mean us to shirk using it.
He was too proud to shirk, too brave to cry when every nerve and muscle of his little body ached with mortal weariness, but he hated it.
I cannot permit either you or Tollemache to take a risk which I shirk.
It can neither escape the responsibilities of the past, nor shirk those of the future.
They were going to shirk the responsibility of their own election cry, although it was known that their own Chancellor of the Exchequer was prepared to carry it out to the full.
We, you and I, might despise their creed, but how am I to shirk the claims of gratitude? I owe everything to my uncle.
Am I the kind of woman, do you suppose, to shirk such cares? The humblest task may earn a rich harvest of affection.
It is true that in his own country he is taught to shirk work, because kind, silly people fall over each other to help and debauch and amuse him.
Let him shirk the burden, and not a world but an entire universe would crumble.
As he had said to Anthony Dexter, he could excuse a liar, pardon a thief, and pity a murderer, but he had only contempt for a shirk.
When at last we shirk the work of being unhappy we forget our sorrow.
Pitt saw the prospect before him, and did not attempt to shirk it.
Looking outside is a temptation to shirk responsibility.
The government had been the first to shirk responsibility and to violate sacred obligations.
Sometimes they are exceedingly industrious and obedient, but then there is an even chance that they will shirk and follow their own sweet will.
I can well imagine that the children of some strolling players used to have a hard time of it, but my mother was not one to shirk her duties.
Rising from the table at length, she was aware of an urgent impulse to shirk the interview for which he had made request.
These old heroes knew it, and did not shirk it, but fought it out, and left honourable names and a glory that widens year by year.
If you get rich when the mill is going again, I shall beg for a housekeeper, and shirk everything.

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