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shirkingverbpresent participle of shirk to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickeryyou always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you "forgot" your wallet avoiding, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, finessing, getting around, scaping, shaking, shuffling (out of), shunning, weaseling (out of) missingaverting, deflecting, diverting, obviating, parrying, preventing, warding (off)banning, barring, debarring, eliminating, excepting, excluding, precluding, ruling outbypassing, circumventing, skirtingfoiling, foxing, frustrating, outfoxing, outsmarting, outwitting, overreaching, thwarting fighting shy of, keeping clear of, staying clear of, steering clear of accepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcomingcatching, contracting, incurring to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessnessa deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years forgetting, neglecting slacking (off) attending (to), remembering carrying out, doing, executing, performingaccomplishing, achievingkeeping up, maintaining to move about in a sly or secret mannergiven the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies lurking, mooching, mousing, pussyfooting, skulking, sliding, slinking, slipping, snaking, sneaking, stealing crawling, creeping, edging, inching, wormingghosting, padding, tiptoeing |