(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.
Shrank
Definition:
() imp. of Shrink.
(imp.) of Shrink
Example Sentences:
(1) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
(2) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(3) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
(4) All revisions indicated that the devascularized necrotic segment shrank to form a minute fibrous tissue residue, anastomosis was patent and continence was retained for colo-proctoanastomosis.
(5) In experiment one, 144 zygotes shrank to 32-36% of their initial volume in 1.0 M SPBS within 30 min.
(6) His brief grew and then shrank with his appointment as the BBC's "teen tsar" overseeing BBC Switch, axed as part of director general Mark Thompson's strategy review last year.
(7) MR cells shrank about 23% when all chloride was removed from the outside (mucosal) bathing solution.
(8) The sharp fall is partly due to the extra bank holiday in June (for the Diamond Jubilee), so could be a one-off... ...and as the data isn't as bad as feared, it might suggest that the original estimate that the UK shrank by 0.7% in the last quarter will be revised a little higher.
(9) As the programme got going most of the problems shrank in size whilst the problem of changing their practice routines to meet certain guidelines for quality of care imposed by the programme grew.
(10) Spain's economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter, putting it back into recession and with a long downturn in prospect as the government cuts spending in an attempt to wrestle down its budget deficit.
(11) Greece is expected to raise as much as €6bn this week to address its borrowing needs – including a much-discussed €3.2bn bond which matures later this month ( this FT piece has more details ) Updated at 10.45am BST 10.02am BST ITALIAN RECESSION CONTINUES Just in: Italian GDP shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2012.
(12) Although the extracellular space (ECS) shrank by approximately 50% during anoxia, the possibility that the increase in K+o and decrease in K+i were mainly caused by shrinkage of the ECS and swelling of intraneuronal space was excluded to a great degree because the changes in K+i and K+o during anoxia were relatively very large.
(13) Light cells shrank when NMG+ replaced Na+, supporting predictions of a Na(+)-dependent volume control system.
(14) RIF-1 tumors shrank to approximately half the volume at the start of therapy after only 3 days of treatment; mammary tumors took longer to respond, not reaching half the starting volume until after 11 days of treatment.
(15) But in April 2014, his show was taken off the air as the opportunities for criticism of authorities shrank.
(16) Tours was transformed, he says, when its high-speed service shrank the journey from Paris to just over an hour in 1989.
(17) Official figures will reveal on Thursday whether the economy shrank for a second successive quarter, from January to March, marking a triple-dip recession – unprecedented in living memory.
(18) The new data show that during the recent downturn the economy shrank by 6.0%, rather than the 7.2% previously estimated.
(19) The Japanese economy shrank by 1.3% in the last three months of 2010, and there are fears that its recovery could be knocked off course.
(20) Economists were most alarmed by data from France, where manufacturing activity shrank at the fastest rate in almost three years.