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Shirking

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verb

1
The act of one who shirks.
1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography 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 […]

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verb

1
The act of one who shirks.
1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography 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 […]

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