Crossword-Solution: SHIRKED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shirked | imp. & p. p. | of Shirk |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SHIRKED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Avoided on the job | 1 answer |
| Avoided, as a task | 1 answer |
| Blew off | 1 answer |
| Dodged, as a duty | 1 answer |
| Slipped out of | 1 answer |
| Dodged | 7 answers |
| Evaded | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZAMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHIRKED (5)
Wentworth shirked a responsibility; he earnestly desired that it might not be laid upon him to determine how his nephew’s lighter propositions should be treated.
But the half-broken colt was a racehorse! He lay down to work with a will, Flashed through the scrub like a clean-skin -- by Heavens we FLEW down the hill! Over a twenty-foot gully he swept with the spring of a deer And they fired as we jumped, but they missed me -- a bullet sang close to my ear -- And the jump gained us ground, for they shirked it: but I saw as we raced through the gap That the rails at the homestead were fastened -- I was caught like a rat in a trap.
Used to wonder why he never Loafed along the road an' shirked; Can't recall a time whenever Father played while others worked.
She openly shirked her work, when it pleased her so to do, and demanded perquisites and privileges so insolently that even William asked Billy one day whether Mary Ellen or Billy herself were the mistress of the Strata: and Bertram, with mock humility, inquired how _soon_ Mary Ellen would be wanting the house.
Nor could the employers of these soldiers of Victor Dorn's complain that they shirked their work for politics.
Quotes with SHIRKED (3)
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1997–2023).