What's the difference between shirk and shirky?

Shirk


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
  • (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
  • (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
  • (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
  • (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
  • (2) A new report is just another excuse for those in power to shirk responsibility, to blame the people they have already degraded once and who cannot defend themselves.
  • (3) Time at home, alone, without chores, is still often felt as shirking responsibility.
  • (4) He’s taking a lot of stick at the moment – as everyone is – but it is a measure of him that he fronts it up every day and doesn’t shirk it.
  • (5) Shirk said one-party China – a country most still associate with little more than economic success and autocratic governance – saw a chance to rebrand itself as a benevolent great power acting in the common good.
  • (6) Neville has work ahead; the good news is that he will not shirk it.
  • (7) While some bosses shirk from defending their personal pay deals, Horta-Osório – whose 10-strong management team cashed in on £23m through the same bonus scheme – does not.
  • (8) Schreiber points out that some of the debates against the ERA were about "masculinity run amok": "Phyllis Schlafly said if we were are treated as equals, then men will shirk their responsibilities," she notes.
  • (9) Poon said Beijing was attempting to shift the focus on to how much medical attention Liu was receiving to shirk responsibility for its “cold-blooded” treatment of the democracy activist.
  • (10) They chased every ball, never shirked a tackle and, when they needed a centre-forward to show composure and experience, they had a 32-year-old from Stoke City, with silver flecks in his hair, who passed the test with distinction.
  • (11) Focusing on glorifying and eternalising the leaders and taking refuge in God and inserting them into hidden shirk [idolatry] through immortalising ephemeral, temporary personalities.
  • (12) At the same time, we will not shirk from vigorously defending our right and proper role to expose wrongdoing in the public interest."
  • (13) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
  • (14) Jones said Australia was engaging with the UN with goodwill on how best to tackle the crisis, and not on how to shirk its international responsibilities.
  • (15) As Republicans we will not shirk our responsibility and we believe that it is now necessary for us to take this lead in bringing the agreement to its conclusion.
  • (16) "My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
  • (17) But he has never been one to shirk a challenge, choosing to serve in Vietnam so he could stay in the US after moving to New York in the 1960s.
  • (18) Some European partners are shirking from the task,” she said.
  • (19) However, human rights groups say Britain is shirking its legal responsibilities – fearful that the route could be seen as a “back door” to Britain – and coercing people into staying put while paying Cyprus to house and feed them.
  • (20) It’s not me shirking my responsibilities, I take internet security seriously, but I can’t always protect myself against an army of online fraud experts.

Shirky


Definition:

  • (a.) Disposed to shirk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We've always been able to say 'oh no, we don't mean you, Saudi Arabia,'" said Shirky.
  • (2) Does it bother you that Jeff Jarvis and Clay Shirky have many more Twitter followers than you?
  • (3) The exchange will then be posted in a form similar to this one previously done by the Guardian with Clay Shirky.
  • (4) As the writer Clay Shirky put it, Democrats who respond to Trump by patiently noting his contradictions and untruths are making a category error: “We’ve brought fact-checkers to a culture war”.
  • (5) Updated at 3.24pm BST 3.17pm BST How data can help keep communities safe Emmanuel Kala of Ushahidi (which if I recall is a project in which Clay Shirky had a hand, at least as a midwife).
  • (6) What I've tried to do in my reviews is engage seriously with these bullshit concepts, as if they were serious – to see whether an idea such as "cognitive surplus", of which Clay Shirky is very fond, has any meaning at all.
  • (7) To the internet commentator Clay Shirky , by contrast, America's interest in using internet freedom to undermine autocracies is "acknowledged internally and understood externally.
  • (8) Clay Shirky has written, in response to people who say the internet is destroying print, books, newspapers etc, that it is "the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history".
  • (9) In comments made at the Guardian last week, the web guru Clay Shirky said: "Information doesn't want to be free.
  • (10) Shirky says: "The real threat to internet freedom isn't from Iran saying we're going to disconnect and build an alternate internet – that's a desperate act.
  • (11) In the turbulence of the coming years – when, as the new media academic Clay Shirky puts it, the "old model is breaking faster than the new stuff gets put in place" – all media may come to rely on some form of medium-term subsidy.
  • (12) Shirky, the charismatic guru of New York University, told her that he viewed the smartphone as an explosive device that can get at you at any time.
  • (13) "It's very difficult to weaponise social media," says Shirky – to choose the battles you want to wage, so as to support openness in Iran, say, while overlooking abuses in South Korea or Thailand, and not aggravating the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), for whom a free and unmonitorable internet is less a human right and more a grave business threat.
  • (14) Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky, 2008 Here Comes Everybody showed how the web had democratised group interaction.
  • (15) As Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus argues, the internet, computer games and mobile devices are creating a new generation of active producers and sharers of content, rather than passive consumers.
  • (16) You are a feared reviewer of other technology pundits' books … you demolished Jeff Jarvis's book Public Parts , called Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography "pedestrian", you regularly ridicule internet consultant Clay Shirky via Twitter – do you enjoy a fight?
  • (17) Brin and Page came just in time to bring their key insight to the critical problem created by the internet: search and discovery – or, in the words of New York University's Professor Clay Shirky, "filter failure".
  • (18) Shirky, a theatre director turned internet evangelist, claimed communal websites such as Wikipedia made traditional institutions redundant, and predicted that bloggers would soon usurp mainstream news outlets as distributors of information.
  • (19) One of the interesting things about her film is the way it reveals that even the first generation evangelists for the liberating possibilities of the new technology, like Jimmy Wales or Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody ) have slightly shifted in some of their rhetoric.
  • (20) We are living at a time when – as the American academic Clay Shirky puts it – "the old models are breaking faster than the new models can be put into place".

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