SHIRKS Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

shirks

verb

present tense third-person singular of shirk

as in avoids

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery you always try to shirk paying your fair share of the bill by claiming you "forgot" your wallet

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as in neglects

to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness a deadbeat who has been shirking his duty to his family for years

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as in lurks

to move about in a sly or secret manner given the multitude of auditoriums at the multiplex, it's not too difficult for underaged kids to shirk into R-rated movies

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If Musk and Ramsawamy’s group avoids recommending ways to slash benefit programs such as Social Security and spending on the military, that could mean cuts of more than 80% across domestic programs, including food inspections and infrastructure repairs.

William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
This also avoids a brightness instability problem that can afflict the TV’s Standard mode, where the image suffers distracting brightness ‘jumps’ or ‘drops’ when an HDR image cuts abruptly between bright and dark shots.

John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024

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