Shirking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHIRKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHIRK, to avoid work or a duty
• avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)
• be unwilling to do (something difficult)
NOUN:
• a person who shirks.
• the evasion of work or duty
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to avoid work or duty

Words related to SHIRKING

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How to use SHIRKING in a sentence

• This time, I was resolved to conquer my shirking, and go right through with the matter.
• She had not deemed him heartless, but she had regretted that deliberate shirking of his grief.
• It surprises me to find so many people shirking over the mention of non-co-operation.
• If the reader calls this shirking and robbery, he must.
• He was not shirking a fight, but to be cornered like a trapped coyote was another matter.
• At least the only purpose in evidence was the fierce quest of enjoyment, and the only power that of successfully shirking facts.
• Is it understood then? You have your house-party and when you come back you are pledged to honest work, no shirking, no requests for time off, no complaints.
• I now realized that if the secrets of the fantastic realm which my fancy had pictured were to be revealed to me, there must be no more shirking.
• With that liberty he made it his business to see that no dog was shirking.
• Nothing escaped him, least of all a hint of any kind of shirking.
• She had promised Dudley that the calls should be made, and she put on her visiting gown without a thought of shirking the fulfilment of her pledge.
• He paced the floor in agony of mind, for he well understood that there was no shirking the responsibility.
• For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.
• Just so long as I was writing, she was happy to let me go on shirking my responsibilities.
• He had been reproached with intentionally shirking the application of his theory to Man.
• In one particular laziness was epidemic, even among the otherwise industrious, and it took the form of shirking the road tax.
• A great number of people are expressing conflicting opinions upon all sorts of things, but there is a quite remarkable shirking of plain issues of debate.
• Hold up the role of husband and father as particularly honorable, and proclaim its shirking, without adequate cause, as dishonorable.
• This point, however, our scientific men are sadly given to shirking.
• Porter, and stated the trouble about nurses shirking.
• Through their kinship, the cowardice and the shirking became a part of his heritage.
• But, toward the end, my lack of success was due to my utter disgust with myself for being so blamed poor and for shirking.
• Yet I need hardly say that here, because shirking people, lazy people do not worry.
• Cavour did not think of shirking this question because it was difficult.
• This is a mere shirking of responsibility, and nothing but a reasonable investigation and an insistence on the highest ideals of life will help humanity.
• I felt like an idle man, shirking the saddle, when I should be serving my country.
• No nonsense about birth-control there! No shirking by women of the sacred duties of perpetual maternity! No immoral notions about claims to happiness and desires for culture.
• Wolfe with his own eyes saw that there was no shirking, no mismanagement here.
• There is more complaining, more shirking, more gossip than in the middle of the week.

Similar words containing SHIRK without suffix ing

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