Shirked is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for SHIRKED 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.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to avoid work or duty

Words related to SHIRKED

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How to use SHIRKED in a sentence

This is the heritage she was born to, this her lot, not to be shirked, not to be evaded even now at her early age of seventeen.
According to the precepts of that philosophy, Sinclair would have shirked a vital moral duty had he failed to avenge the pitiful death of his brother.
My father has never shirked his share of the work, and he has only one thought now, and that is to do well for us.
But the importance of the subject will not permit it to be thus shirked.
He had shirked duty for several years, and had been known as a reliable business man at Summit.
He knew, however, that the men needed a leader, not a superintendent, and he would not urge them to efforts he shirked.
In a sense, she had shirked her duty and failed her husband, but she had long given way to him and was now beginning to rebel.
A horrid nuisance, of course, quite rotten, and all that, but no more to be shirked than the risk of taking a toss over an ugly fence.
You said you would go with us, and shirked because you were afraid of a bit of wind.
The business before him was one that could not be shirked, and the lines on his dark face showed unyielding determination as he went.

There was indeed a whole brood of collateral issues to be left in convenient obscurity, but the central questions must not be shirked.
It has never been a majority of women who for a great length of time have shirked this problem by any one of these methods.
She finds that society regards her as one who shirked the task of life, and who, therefore, should not be honored as the woman who has stood up to the common burden.
Jane seldom saw him smile and never heard him sing and she feared that he often shirked her company.
I had no particularly bad traits that I am aware of, only that I was possessed of an instinctive dislike both to study and work, and I shirked them whenever opportunity offered.
Addison and I saw just where we had shirked and where we had let temper and resentment influence us.
Even the peasant was beginning to feel the amelioration of his lot, found life easy, and work something to be shirked.
My questionings were neither shirked nor discouraged by Mr.
Cumbrous though his body might be, when he was in the woods he never shirked any hardship to secure a specially fine bale of furs.
Confronted with this difficulty, we have shirked it, and our ambition has shrunk to the portrayal of those aspects which shuffle our poverty out of sight.
These men who had professed the Invisible King of the World, shirked his service.
And it is this element which has complicated city living to a great extent, and to which attention has been drawn by the accusation that home life is shirked by it.
The parental role was not a familiar one, and he shirked it.
He also felt obliged to make an effort, rather reluctantly, to maintain some decent standing in the classes of Professor Hope, even if he shirked in all the rest.
Nothing would be more personally offensive to me than the supposition that I shirked criticism, just or unjust, of any lecture I ever gave.
It was a great task they were set, but they never shirked the consequences.
But she was back at her work again next morning grimly determined to show Louis that if he shirked his job she would do it for him.
The corners are not shirked through fatigue, but there is an unaccountable persistency in avoiding them, which resolution and preaching are alike unable to conquer.
But as he shirked no part of the universal hardship, they left him his reticence.
Jonah did not venture to take for granted that the charge which he had shirked was still continued to him.
The direct obligation to direct efforts to impart the Gospel cannot be shirked, though, alas! it is far too often ignored by us professing Christians.

Similar words containing SHIRK without suffix ed

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