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UK
/ʃˈɜːkɐ/
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NOUN
- a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
How To Use shirker In A Sentence
- Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
- Why should ordinary Koreans pay taxes for those shirkers who educate their children abroad and avoid military service duties?
- He is not a shirker, but he went into his shell when faced with some rough stuff. Times, Sunday Times
- And if the socialist shirkers riot, shoot them!
- God is only a word bandied about by the pseudo-intellectual, an illusion nourished by the ignorant, a luxury cultivated by the rich and the famous and an excuse used by the shirker.
- I am not a shirker, a scrounger, a beggar, nor a thief. Times, Sunday Times
- I'd rather just loudly insist that people who favor war go fight in it themselves or be damned as showboaters and shirkers.
- Shirker " the appearance is greatly filler cloth sits bag, outer use more coriaceous or canvas.
- There is no room in our organization for shirkers.
- IMHO, indeed it is true that most ranks above that of Inspector (and including a lot of day shirker Inspectors who hide in offices) have sold out their collective backsides to climb the greasy pole. I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG