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

He was to work hard always at any job he could find for any wages he could get, and if he didn't he was a "drunken shirker" and the dupe of "paid agitators."

From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)