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1
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
- you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you "forgot" your wallet
Synonyms for shirk
- avoid,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elude,
- escape,
- eschew,
- evade,
- finesse,
- get around,
- scape,
- shake,
- shuffle (out of),
- shun,
- weasel (out of)
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2
to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness
- a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years
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3
to move about in a sly or secret manner
- given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies
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“Shirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shirk. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of shirk was in 1681
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