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shirking

adjective as in loafing

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Effortlessly shirking the corruption scandal, Rangel remained king for the night.

What are some of the responsibilities that maybe Google or Facebook or companies such as this have been shirking?

The biggest pre-election issue, Haredi sponging and shirking of military service, was captured by Yair Lapid.

"Netanyahu is scared, fickle and shirking responsibility," Diskin says in the interview.

Foreplay-shirking leads to the dissatisfaction of one partner, leading to less sex and potentially a breakup of the team.

This result comes only to those who carry out all the directions with genuine alacrity—not shirking one of them.

Neither would stoop to stinting or to shirking, neither would give the other an inch of ground for complaint.

It sufficed to dispel my horror of a system from which I had an instinctive shirking.

He'll go on shirking just the way he's begun if I give him the chance.

And in some cases he found them shirking their duties, and asking permission to return 261to England on trivial pleas.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shirking, such as: evading, pretending, slacking, apathetic, careless, and indifferent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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