shirking

English

Verb

shirking

  1. present participle and gerund of shirk

Noun

shirking (plural shirkings)

  1. The act of one who shirks.
    • 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography
      Autobiography [] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth []
    • 1983 December 3, Walta Borawski, “The Saga of Baby Divine (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10:
      Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.
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