Crossword-Solution: SHIRKS
We have 11 clues for the answer “SHIRKS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Avoids, as responsibility | 1 answer |
| Evades, as work | 1 answer |
| Malingers | 1 answer |
| Neglects a duty. | 1 answer |
| Neglects, as responsibilities | 1 answer |
| Practices evasion. | 1 answer |
| Avoids work | 3 answers |
| Goldbricks | 7 answers |
| Neglects | 7 answers |
| AVOIDS WORK - TROUSERS | 10 answers |
| Goofs off | 10 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
CMZAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHIRKS (5)
That is why the League expels any man who shirks or is a drunkard or a crook or a bad husband and father." The great fight of the League--the fight that was keeping it from power--was with the trades unions, which were run by secret agents of the Kelly-House oligarchy.
And then, again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump.
With a strong soul, and a noble aim, one can do what one wills, morally speaking.” Hugh Miller said the only school in which he was properly taught was “that world-wide school in which toil and hardship are the severe but noble teachers.” He who allows his application to falter, or shirks his work on frivolous pretexts, is on the sure road to ultimate failure.
Master! Do you mean for to go for to tell us that the relations between young gentlemen and their schoolmasters are entirely frank and cordial; that the lad is familiar with the man who can have him flogged; never shirks his exercise; never gets other boys to do his verses; never does other boys' verses; never breaks bounds; never tells fibs--I mean the fibs permitted by scholastic honor? Did I know of a boy who pretended to such a character, I would forbid my scapegraces to keep company with him.
They were the first institutors of that honorable order of knighthood called Fly-market shirks, and, if tradition speak true, did likewise introduce the far-famed step in dancing called 'double trouble.' They were commanded by the fearless Jacobus Varra Vanger,--and had, moreover, a jolly band of Breuckelen ferry-men, who performed a brave concerto on conch shells.
Quotes with SHIRKS (1)
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1956–2019).