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Synonyms for shirk
ʃɜrkshirk
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Princeton's WordNet
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, mulctshirkverb
avoid dealing with
"She shirks her duties"
Synonyms:
shrink from, goldbrick, fiddle
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
shirkverb
Synonyms:
avoid (in a mean way), evade, get off from
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "shirk":
evade, escape, circumvent, avoid, elude
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#516 | play | |
#2215 | avoid | |
#2529 | con | |
#2897 | toy | |
#4430 | escape | |
#6182 | monkey | |
#11065 | scam | |
#18731 | fiddle | |
#26568 | tinker | |
#33106 | tamper | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35306 | evade | |
#35780 | rook | |
#42454 | gip | |
#49972 | defraud | |
#58296 | swindle | |
#64306 | elude | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#72473 | diddle | |
#113787 | gyp | |
#138234 | bunco | |
#164852 | victimize |
How to use shirk in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
I'm responsible. I don't shirk that responsibility.
Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.
Translations for shirk
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- drückenGerman
- evadir, correrSpanish
- pinnataFinnish
- esquirer, esquiver, éviterFrench
- koma sér undanIcelandic
- sottrarsi, dare buca, scansareItalian
- シャークJapanese
- თავს არიდებსGeorgian
- zijn plicht ontlopen, zich drukkenDutch
- лодырничать, сачковать, бездельничать, уклоняться, увиливатьRussian
- undvika, smita frånSwedish
- ширкуватиUkrainian
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