shirking

English

Verb

shirking

  1. present participle of shirk

Noun

shirking (plural shirkings)

  1. The act of one who shirks.
    • 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography
      Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
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