shirking

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shirking

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shirk

noun shirkings

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 […]

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@misc{shirking_2026,
  title = {shirking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shirking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}