shirker

Example Sentences

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He is the savior and the sage instead of the selfish shirker.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2016

I remember how my lottery draft number was "356" and, at the time, everyone saw me as fortunate rather than a shirker or coward...

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016

This shirker, this ingrate, had taken the money and run.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2014

Prior is no shirker but the mind forgot to inform his body of the wisdom of staying behind the white line.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2011

He was degenerating into a shirker, a destroyer, a money-maniac, a complainer of other men’s successes.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry