0 past simple and past participle of shirk --
1 to avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant: --
I will not shirk from my obligations.
If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.
No one can say that we have shirked our duty.
We have taken on the problems that our predecessors shirked and set the economy on the right course for the long term.
That is not an easy thing to do, although we have not shirked doing it in many directions.
The fact is that whatever your views may be on nuclear energy, this part of the cycle cannot be abandoned or shirked.
At that time we were not quite so friendly towards people who shirked, people who would not stand in with their comrades.
Governments have shirked that subject because it divides the people and there is a great leaning both ways.
For those of us who have the responsibilities, they cannot be dodged or shirked, and we will not shirk them.
Close inquiry is not so much guarded against as shirked by those who wish to believe in it.
