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Meanings of shirker in English
Portuguese
slacker generation Catalan
manta A person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
Usage of shirker in English
1
The core question at the ballot box is: Worker or shirker?
2
I owe that much to Jimmy. Mark was not a shirker.
3
Frewen took him up sharply: This man is no shirker, sir.
4
I called you a shirker, Bob, and ordered Helen to leave you alone.
5
If you will just give me that chance, you'll find I'm no shirker.
6
The labor involved in such work was very great, but Washington was no shirker.
7
Nor was there a shirker among the men-and all because the leader was Forrest.
8
You were faithful and I no better than a shirker.
9
There is nothing that comes to the idler, or shirker.
10
I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment.
11
But his code did not include such a shirker's refuge.
12
There is no place for a shirker or a quitter in a real Unitarian church.
13
The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker.
14
Only that he was a shirker during the war.
15
The world despises a shirker but honors a worker.
16
He did; and he always said that Michael Pendean was a 'shirker' and a coward.
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