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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Ken Paxton:

   I will continue to tirelessly defend the integrity and security of our elections and hold accountable those who shirk established election law for their own convenience.

5. Mark Twain:

   Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.