shirker
Example Sentences
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In the car, it is a navigator, a radio, a nagging distractor and a ready accessory to manslaughter; at work, it is both a vigilant assistant and an eager fellow shirker.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2018
He is the savior and the sage instead of the selfish shirker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2016
This shirker, this ingrate, had taken the money and run.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
At Lord's Sachin Tendulkar, no shirker, never took his pads off throughout India's final training session.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
As for me, I was called the lazy member of the family; a shirker who complained that it was too cold to work in the winter, and too warm in the summer.
From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux
