shirking
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]shirking
- present participle and gerund of shirk
Noun
[edit]shirking (plural shirkings)
- 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 […]
- 1983 December 3, Walta Borawski, “The Saga of Baby Divine (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10:
- 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.
- 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography