shirker

Example Sentences

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Cookie shirkers of the world, unite: Together, we can face unafraid the plans that we’ve made.

From Washington Post

"Rather than blanket mandates or unhelpful language about shirkers getting back to the office, employers have sensible conversations with the staff about how that return will happen," he added.

From BBC

Distrust "government," which taxes workers to support shirkers, illegal immigrants and high-living seniors depriving later generations of their future.

From Salon

“They ought to think about other people rather than themselves,” she said of the shirkers.

From Washington Post

The answer is obvious: Because he's a coward and a shirker, vastly out of his depth, painfully outmatched and fatally incapable of handling a crisis of any magnitude, much less this one.

From Salon