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Shirking

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    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 […]"

  2. 2
    the evasion of work or duty wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shirk form-of, gerund, participle, present

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