Words and phrases that have a meaning related to shirking: (129 results)
Often used in the same context:
abdicating, neglecting, ignoring, abandoning, shouldering, overstepping, forsaking, betraying, shunning, absolving, flouting, ducking, disregarding, fulfilling, abrogating, slacking, reneging, skipping, shying, deserting, undermining, taking, forgetting, procrastinating, fobbing, skimping, failing, evading, sacrificing, kowtowing, acquiescing, soft pedaling, sidestepping, fudging, minding, snubbing, upholding, micromanaging, negligent, entrusting, understating, prevaricating, wimping, burdening, foisting, perpetuating, dodging, eschewing, discharging, heeding, usurping, overreaching, straying, skirting, absenting, shifting, ditching, appeasing, exaggerating, doing, tolerating, capitulating, stepping, resiling, rejecting, excusing, vindicating, overreacting, castigating, moral obligation, wasting, glossing, blaming, delegating, dithering, misunderstand, overstating, subverting, scold, enforcing, besmirching, ceding, disgracing, stonewalling, adhering, protecting, dirtying, forgoing, scorning, beholden, pandering, omitting, sullying, wronging, transgressing, caving, refusing, stinting, loth, abusing, nitpicking, arrogating, dishonesty, misbehavior, deception, evasion, unfairness, concealment, dereliction, dishonor, disloyalty, falsification, insincerity, misdirection, misrepresentation, negligence, pretense, sabotage, wrongdoing, adulteration, arson, cheating
Appears in the definition of:
malingerer, shammer, skulker
More general:
escape
Synonyms:
Also try:goldbricking, goofing off, soldiering
— Adjectives for shirking: such, more, managerial, cowardly, less, mere, little, much, craven, ideological, military, more...
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