Examples of use of SHIRKER
1. The Shirker The Shirker is the office Houdini –– somehow he manages to disappear when work is near.
2. Thus did they build up a mythology that cast Bush as the tough hero in confronting the terrorist threat and Clinton as the shirker.
3. Gordon Brown for God‘s sake get your head out of whatever basket you have it stuck in and see what is happening on the streets of Britain and quit being such a shirker.
4. The flight lieutenant is no ordinary war protester, and no shirker of combat –– unlike, say, the pair of prissy cowards at the head of the U.S.–British "coalition." Kendall–Smith, who has dual New Zealand–British citizenship –– and a pair of university degrees in medicine and Kantian moral philosophy –– has served three tours at the front in Afghanistan and Iraq.