intransitive verb. To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).

intransitive verb. To avoid work or duty.

To practise mean or artful tricks; live by one's wits; shark.

To avoid unfairly or meanly the performance of some labor or duty.

To procure by mean tricks; shark.

To avoid or get off from unfairly or meanly; slink away from: as, to shirk responsibility.

noun. One who lives by shifts or tricks. See shark.

noun. One who seeks to avoid duty.

intransitive verb. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

intransitive verb. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

noun. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

transitive verb. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

transitive verb. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud.

noun. the unforgivable sin of idolatry

verb. To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.

noun. one who shirks

verb. avoid (one's assigned duties)

verb. avoid dealing with

"She doesn't shirk from the realities that surround the economy, but neither does she give in to those who always seem to see the doom and gloom, rather than the shimmer of hope."

malinger  to shirk off  

avoid  

Berk  Burk  Burke  Dirk  Kirk  

abandon  avoid  avoid  balk  bilk  

shirked  shirking  shirks