shirking

Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life--the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world."

"Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried.

"Sir," said he, "you do ill to nurse this rancour; the people perish fighting round this our town; you would yourself chide one whom you saw shirking his part in the combat.

The nurse, however, is determined that, insane or not, there shall be no shirking and that you shall go through your task to the end.

Shirking and sharking in all their many varieties have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong it was in some off-hand manner never meant to go right.

Yet he labored stoically on, never shirking, never grunting a hint of complaint.

There must be no shirking. Now, what departments will we have?

Years ago, the term "shirking" was used to define the standard regarding the employment choice.

DAVID Beckham has been accused of "shirking his responsibility" as a role model after he avoided prosecution over a speeding charge on a technicality.

DAVID Beckham has been accused of 'shirking his responsibility' as a role model after he avoided prosecution over a speeding charge on a technicality.