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Meanings of shirk in inglês
espanhol
esquivar Sinônimos
Examples for "fiddle"
Examples for "fiddle"
1
Having consumed the said sweet, she continued to fiddle with the paper.
2
One I knew played the fiddle; another preached Socialism in Hyde Park.
3
No sharp young troopers, fit as a fiddle and ready to fight.
4
This bank will be blue in a few weeks; and fiddle-heads everywhere.
5
The fuss-and-fiddle days with parallel-sided cracks gave way to plug and chug.
1
I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2
I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3
Out with the goldbrick first.
4
We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5
He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1
Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
2
The competition will shrink from January, leaving seven players with nationwide presence.
3
I never shrink from personal discomfort: I never refuse to sacrifice myself.
4
But the medical school laboratory seems to shrink from the public scrutiny.
5
In spite of their prejudices, they did not shrink from applying it.
Usage of shirk in inglês
1
Yet it continues to shirk its responsibilities to the nation's public health.
2
No local authority should be able to shirk its responsibility, Lofven said.
3
Clarence refused to shirk the sense of responsibility to himself, Helen says.
4
Everybody had a job to do; no one was allowed to shirk.
5
The interview was perilous; but he was not one to shirk danger.
6
We don't shirk from naming difficult things to ourselves and to others.
7
I never shirk my job and never let anything interfere with it.
8
I shall venture, to-night, to shirk;-thoughthe king will soon miss me.
9
Didn't shirk his defensive duties, providing a crucial early block on Son.
10
The profiteer, the shirk, the fraud of any sort, was instantly unmasked.
11
She did not shirk the part which she had allotted to herself.
12
Think about breaking it up into smaller chunks, but don't shirk it.
13
The Protector of Urione did not shirk his place in the fore.
14
But, of course, if you shirk the sea you are a prisoner.
15
This mission was Olympus born, and they would not shirk from it.
16
But he did not shirk this new task that came to him.
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Shirk across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common