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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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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?
I loaned my campaign money because we were in a startup phase. As the campaign pays me back, I’m applying those dollars to take care of my debt to my obligations, managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.
Managing your finances doesn’t mean you don’t have debt. It means that you never shirk your responsibilities, and you meet your obligations.
What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it.
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.
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.
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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