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shirking

shirking

English

Verb

shirking

present participle of shirk

Noun

shirking ‎(plural shirkings)

The act of one who shirks.
- Samuel Clemens
  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 […]