- present participle of shirk.
shirking
Example Sentences
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Without shirking responsibility, the 52-year-old explained that her judgment had been clouded in part by other circumstances in her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
"They seem to be shirking their responsibilities all together and saying this is not an issue for us," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Employees monitor social-media posts to spot users’ latest methods for shirking their missions, said Jay Shin, chief executive of DelightRoom, the South Korean company behind Alarmy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
If letting Claude kill people on its own is not shirking oversight mechanisms, then we might reasonably question which “oversight mechanisms” Anthropic is talking about.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
“Such a shirking trick in a workman employed to keep the terraces clean should be a criminal offence.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
