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shirking

[ US /ˈʃɝkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈɜːkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the evasion of work or duty

How To Use shirking In A Sentence

  • By ignoring their epistemic and metaphysical brokenness, we are shirking our Christian duty to truly show love for our neighbor.
  • Any homilist who fails to address this is shirking his duty. The Burning Hell
  • Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility.
  • You're supposed to tidy up, so stop shirking and do it!
  • Here Moses claims God is shirking responsibility for his people.
  • Surrender is not the same as shirking one's responsibilities or assumption of passivity.
  • This shirking of my writing does not bode well for my prospects when I get a ‘real’ job.
  • All through those weeks of killings the state and Central government kept on shirking their responsibilities.
  • Rather than shirking from the term palliative care, they have thrown their weight and credibility behind it in a further effort to educate clinicians and consumers about palliative care and to reduce stigma associated with the term. Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog
  • In practice it means a set of extremely rotten values: greed, self-absorption, atomization, suspiciousness, superstition, lying (especially to ones' self), responsibility-shirking, resentment ('coveting'), and ultimately, nihilism ('rapture'). Your Right Hand Thief
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