Several commenters suggest that shirking is not significant problem. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Obama will lose, and Hillary will say I told you so, again shirking responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton makes popular vote pitch in new ad] Reference
It's not called shirking responsibility, it's called "taking a break.". From Wordnik.com. [Mania News Feed] Reference
In his statement Leon accused Mbeki of "shirking" his responsibilities by going to Chile. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But the old lady did not approve of people "shirking". From Wordnik.com. [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference
Britain should not be open to accusations of "shirking" the challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Bethel accused Sir Francis of "shirking" him; Sir Francis answered angrily -- that he knew nothing of him, and nothing he wanted to know. From Wordnik.com. [East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter] Reference
No shirking now -- no humbug, for I won't stand it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Now go on, Mr. Luttrell; don't be shirking your duty. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Now, look me straight in the face (no shirking, sir!). From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
Ted's skill at shirking responsibility was astonishing. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Prima Parte] Reference
And I twenty against you for shirking duty and more than. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
In the momentous message, there was no shirking the main issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
The Captain thought a moment, rather shirking going amongst the thorns. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
It would only have looked as though I were shirking a most important duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
But there are many in the performers 'team who are not shirking their responsibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Solon: My Edinburgh] Reference
I'll support those who joined in the primary battles instead of shirking from the fight. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Run, Mike, Run?] Reference
Hearings in the poverty program were hasty; dissent seemed like a shirking of wartime duty. From Wordnik.com. ['Rhetorical Presidency'] Reference
ELLIOTT: In Washington, congressional investigators also think BP is shirking responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [BP Report An Exercise In Finger-Pointing] Reference
Why hope for exalted aid in his own troubles, while shirking opportunity to help the helpless?. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
She had no idea of shirking the ordinary routine of daily life because her mind was perturbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
And as a servant he is laborious and faithful, rarely shirking his work, seeking it out rather. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Bob DoleGAME PLAN: Limit exposure by shirking debates; keep Senate in session to shorten the dock. From Wordnik.com. [The Usual Suspects] Reference
Will you love her selfish, shirking, calculating nature after twenty years of close companionship?. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
There can be no shirking or shifting, and, knowing this, each task is finished, rounded out, and put away. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
Yet future investigations may not associate these robust and warlike tribes with the weak, shirking Negritos. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
The haste of having children is the costly penalty which women pay for shirking the mother's duty to the child. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
This result comes only to those who carry out ALL the directions with genuine alacrity -- not shirking one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
How dismal that America's first black president will be remembered as shirking the last great civil-rights struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Moral Cowardice] Reference
To go back to the bungalow seemed a shirking of the responsibility that was his, the last insult he could offer her. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
He had argued to Barstow that he was shirking no responsibilities, -- but what of such unseen responsibilities as this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
I Let me tell you frankly, I did not respect him because of his caution, his indecision, his shirking of responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Kremlin Plot] Reference
The Faculty of Arts at Glasgow in 1532 issued an edict which has a curious resemblance to the Eton custom of "shirking.". From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
There are cases where untruthfulness is shirking one's duty, just as there are cases where truthfulness is mean or brutal. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
One CEO had not taken a vacation in 14 years, believing that if he did, his employees would think he was shirking his duty. From Wordnik.com. [Overstressed By Success] Reference
If they fail to act decisively on the world stage, they are accused of shirking their responsibilities, of failing to lead. From Wordnik.com. [Hold That Rush To Judgment] Reference
Its virtue is a tough compassion with no easy moralizing and without shirking the tragedy (or the ribald humor) of these women. From Wordnik.com. [Is Broadway Rhythm Back?] Reference
"I shall not trouble him about it," said George; "shirking work always worries him, and he seems to be worried enough as it is.". From Wordnik.com. [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference
Withal we are told he is "smart," meaning, of course, that there must be no shirking of duty, no infringement of the regulations with him. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
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