shirker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shirker
Example Sentences
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He is the savior and the sage instead of the selfish shirker.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2016
I remember how my lottery draft number was "356" and, at the time, everyone saw me as fortunate rather than a shirker or coward...
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016
This shirker, this ingrate, had taken the money and run.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2014
Prior is no shirker but the mind forgot to inform his body of the wisdom of staying behind the white line.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2011
Yes; his reasons were different, and of course he could have made a better case for himself than they did, but was he not a shirker just as much as they were?
From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Hocking, Joseph
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