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 […]
- 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography