Synonyms for shirk
ʃɜrkshirk

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1. fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrickverb

   avoid (one's assigned duties)

   "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"

   Synonyms:
   monkey, con, play, rook, tinker, bunco, swindle, shrink from, toy, tamper, nobble, gyp, goldbrick, victimize, scam, fiddle, hornswoggle, diddle, gip, short-change, defraud, mulct

2. shirkverb

   avoid dealing with

   "She shirks her duties"

   Synonyms:
   shrink from, goldbrick, fiddle

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1. shirkverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid (in a mean way), evade, get off from

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1. shirkverb

   Synonyms:
   avoid, evade, neglect

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1. List of paraphrases for "shirk":

   evade, escape, circumvent, avoid, elude

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How to use shirk in a sentence?

1. Hillary Clinton:

   These efforts to shirk U.S. tax obligations leave American taxpayers holding the bag while corporations juice more revenues and profits , i have a detailed and targeted plan to immediately put a stop to inversions and invest in the U.S., block deals like Johnson Controls and Tyco, and place an 'exit tax' on corporations that leave the country to lower their tax bill.

2. Nadiya Savchenko:

   One gets the impression that lawmakers are like lazy schoolchildren who shirk their work.

3. Christopher Trzaska:

   We've seen a lot of people really shirk our responsibility to having an intellectual, honest debate about conservative policy position. And instead focus on, you know, getting as many liberals mad as they possibly can.

4. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang:

   They have only one objective : to try to shirk responsibility for their own epidemic and prevention and control measures and divert public attention.

5. Scott Swift:

   Put simply, we will continue to exercise freedom of the seas for all nations, because we know from painful past experience, to shirk this responsibility and obligation, puts much more at risk than any one nation's maritime interests.