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Meaning of Shirking | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The act of one who shirks.

Equivalents

العربية التهريب
Ελληνικά λούφα
Suomi laistaminen laisto rokuli
Polski bumelanctwo

Examples

“1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]”
“Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Shirks Shirky Shirky principle Shirl Shirland Shirland and Higham

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