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Synonyms for shirker


Grammar : Noun
Spell : shur-ker
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɜr kər



Définition of shirker

Origin :
  • 1799, agent noun from shirk.
  • noun slacker
Example sentences :
  • Will it satisfy you if I own that I am a shirker, a skrim-shanker, and a coward?
  • Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Nor was there a shirker among the men—and all because the leader was Forrest.
  • Extract from : « A Little Union Scout » by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Insist that you are no shirker, no coward, that you are brave even to daring.
  • Extract from : « The Victorious Attitude » by Orison Swett Marden
  • She was about to set Portia hastily down in her mind as on the order of a shirker.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean College Freshman » by Pauline Lester
  • Grey Bird was not a 'shirker' at any time, but he was surpassing himself on this occasion.
  • Extract from : « Settling Day » by Nat Gould
  • There is no place for a shirker or a quitter in a real Unitarian church.
  • Extract from : « A Backward Glance at Eighty » by Charles A. Murdock
  • Just as 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' so fatalism is the last refuge of a shirker.
  • Extract from : « The Human Machine » by E. Arnold Bennett
  • It would have been a condemnation of you if any one of us had been a shirker.
  • Extract from : « Carry On » by Coningsby Dawson
  • I am a shirker, a man who would be drummed out of any regiment.
  • Extract from : « The Half-Hearted » by John Buchan
  • The more he explained the more he would seem to them to be a shirker.
  • Extract from : « The Tree of Heaven » by May Sinclair

Antonyms for shirker

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