What are the antonyms for SHIRK?
- accept, maintain, court, meet, welcome, face, accomplish, seek, attend, encounter, pursue, confront, incur, keep up, take on, carry out, remember, DO, achieve, catch, embrace, contract, execute, perform.
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Synonyms for SHIRK
- running out on,
- stiffed,
- lurk,
- fluff off,
- turned aside,
- hide behind,
- recoil,
- shies,
- lurching,
- beat around the bush,
- slack off,
- scaredy cat,
- weakling,
- not heeded,
- meet under arch,
- take a hike,
- twiddle thumbs,
- by-passing,
- Sauntered,
- Short-circuiting,
- go around,
- get out,
- short circuits,
- Transgressed,
- stay away from,
- evade,
- resile,
- abstain,
- turning aside,
- gloss over,
- kiting,
- got out of,
- beg the question,
- ratting,
- pay no attention to,
- Jukes,
- Snaking,
- Spiriting,
- shrink,
- fence,
- let slide,
- welsh,
- overleaps,
- slackens,
- bum,
- not mind,
- being unoccupied,
- lollygagging,
- run out on,
- circumlocute,
- goofing off,
- Snaked,
- turn aside,
- get out of,
- worm,
- give the slip,
- neglect,
- went around,
- creep,
- leave town,
- gumshoeing,
- elide,
- avert,
- not listening,
- not touch,
- feinting,
- shirk,
- snuck,
- Refusing,
- circumvent,
- slicked,
- Flinched,
- over pass,
- slough off,
- default,
- wince,
- dodge,
- Invertebrates,
- getting around,
- see in the alley,
- skive off,
- SLIES,
- going around,
- move to the side,
- darked,
- fiddle around,
- jellyfishes,
- snooks,
- gets away from,
- give the runaround,
- Strolled,
- beating around the bush,
- pulls back,
- recreants,
- ward off,
- featherbedded,
- KITES,
- hang out,
- fraidy-cat,
- duck,
- Winced,
- loaf,
- lounge around,
- goldbrick,
- easing off,
- Juke,
- leaves town,
- featherbed,
- lounge,
- by-passed,
- move secretly,
- keep clear,
- faint-of-heart,
- lurch,
- keep off,
- sneak away,
- featherbeds,
- be inactive,
- snook,
- Piddled,
- stickle,
- run around,
- coward,
- not trouble oneself,
- overstep,
- idle,
- piddles,
- exited,
- while away hours,
- step aside,
- infringe,
- put on the cuff,
- flinch from (doing) something,
- be unoccupied,
- drag feet,
- begging the question,
- sit around,
- loiter,
- abdicate,
- slip,
- takes it easy,
- shakes off,
- hold off,
- laze,
- be remiss,
- lie down,
- wriggle out of (doing) something,
- get away from,
- shun,
- Revolutionizing,
- slip out,
- invertebrate,
- pass time,
- malinger,
- passed up,
- overleaped,
- fending off,
- Shying,
- egressing,
- be beyond someone,
- by-passes,
- pull back,
- cheat,
- slying,
- be negligent,
- stop away,
- Mutinied,
- be gone,
- wimp,
- give wide berth to,
- buzz off,
- stickles,
- Hesitated,
- elude,
- turns away,
- kited,
- white liver,
- stepped aside,
- stay off,
- disclaim,
- fake out,
- quit,
- overleap,
- laxed,
- Slank,
- ran away,
- balk,
- skulk,
- drag one's feet,
- dance around an issue,
- Short circuit,
- skulker,
- eschew,
- free oneself,
- turned away,
- tergiverse,
- Stickled,
- overleapt,
- slackening,
- feinted,
- faked out,
- dog it,
- Idled,
- stay out,
- escape,
- En Garde,
- steering clear of,
- break rules,
- get around,
- decline,
- be irresponsible,
- pass up,
- shirker,
- runs away,
- By-pass,
- fly in face of,
- short-circuit,
- Stickling,
- dance around,
- skip town,
- cop out,
- egressed,
- duck out of,
- got away from,
- disregard,
- sneak,
- chicken liver,
- go stealthily,
- shake and bake,
- fencing,
- bypass,
- lose sight of,
- skip out on,
- lead on a merry chase,
- upset apple cart,
- monkeying around,
- go counter to,
- chicken heart,
- run for cover,
- sidestep,
- be slothful,
- Wormed,
- Overpassed,
- spurn,
- glossed over,
- insurrect,
- let pass,
- overpast,
- goof,
- snake,
- vamoose,
- make tracks,
- shy away,
- skulkers,
- be derelict,
- Ratted,
- Slackened,
- slied,
- think little of,
- lay low,
- darking,
- steal,
- WORMS,
- skate,
- keep out of,
- laxes,
- Escaping,
- sloughs off,
- slink,
- turn down,
- not heeding,
- look the other way,
- tap dancing,
- Bummed,
- screw off,
- worm one's way out of,
- pass quietly,
- recalcitrate,
- Welch,
- not heed,
- laxing,
- Parried,
- lie down on job,
- mutiny,
- turn away,
- running away,
- getting away from,
- feint,
- jellyfish,
- piddle,
- skip,
- taking it easy,
- stay away,
- weasel,
- shake off,
- skipped town,
- featherbedding,
- steer clear of,
- Vegetated,
- Bumming,
- take law into own hands,
- put the move on,
- skating,
- stay shy of,
- slicks,
- slacking off,
- run away,
- laid back,
- flinch,
- goof off,
- lily liver,
- monkey around,
- poltroon,
- shrink from,
- pussyfoot,
- beat around bush,
- react,
- not listen,
- laid low,
- disobey,
- not touching,
- tiptoe around,
- keep distance,
- slack,
- be indolent,
- faintheart,
- shuffle off,
- pulling back,
- parry,
- avoid,
- out wit,
- lay back,
- neglected,
- move to side,
- step back,
- disavow,
- setting aside,
- stay out of,
- slow down,
- Shied,
- kite,
- lollygag,
- pulled back,
- knock around,
- be careless,
- fraidy-cats,
- stiffs,
- Slicking,
- stand around,
- yellow belly,
- hold at bay,
- ease off,
- lollygags,
- turning away,
- Worming,
- Withdrew,
- extricate oneself,
- deny,
- dog,
- fraidy cat,
- putz around,
- cut,
- not lift a finger,
- be off,
- industrious,
- slinks,
- bum around,
- slowed down,
- rise in arms,
- being inactive,
- keep away,
- take it easy,
- idles.
Usage Examples for SHIRK
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In failing thus to state plainly and unequivocally the legitimate demands of their people, even at the cost of opposing an honored leader, the thinking classes of American Negroes would shirk a heavy responsibility,- a responsibility to themselves, a responsibility to the struggling masses, a responsibility to the darker races of men whose future depends so largely on this American experiment, but especially a responsibility to this nation,- this common Fatherland. - "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois
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" And of those we do get, some will shirk when the division bell rings," added Howard Fall. - "The Turnstile" by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
