Shirking

Synonyms for "shirking" (15 found)

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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 […]

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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