Shirking

Synonyms for "shirking" (38 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Noun(7 words)
slackingabsentingavoidavoidanceavoidance in conversationsavoidantbunking

Strong matches (11)

Verb(1 words)
evade duty

Related words (19)

Noun(13 words)
goldbrickgoldbrickinggoofing offlazyloafingneglectnegligentremissresponsibility avoidanceresponsibility relinquishmentscrimshanksoldieringunderperformance

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More general

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activityavoidancebehaviorbehavioral attributecharacteristicconductcultural traitdodgingduty evasionemployee behaviorescapeevasionnoncomplianceorganizational behaviororganizational patternpersonal quality

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15 entries
absenteeismcarelessdawdlingduty avoidancelazyloafingnegligentremissresponsibility avoidanceshirk cultureslackingstallingtime theftunderperformancework avoidance

Collocations

15 entries
avoid responsibilitiesavoidance of dutiesduty shirkingnonperformance of dutiesoccurrence of shirkingperceived shirkingresponsibility avoidanceshirk dutiesshirk responsibilitiesshirking behaviorshirking dutiesshirking in the workplaceshirking ratesystematic shirkingwork avoidance

Inflections

4 entries
more shirkingmost shirkingshirkedshirks

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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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Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.

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