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• n  a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)

• At least give that shirker points for creativity.
• No shirker, Ringmaster's ringmaster wrote his own opening article under the pseudonym of "Guy McHerring.
• No shirker is square-faced Count Yasuya Uchida, until last week Japan's Foreign Minister.

• slacker

Quotes

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• Wayne Swan in The Australian
  He was a shirker when we needed a nation-builder,Mr Swan said. "The Australian economy, unfortunately for all of us, was left exposed by his personal neglect of skills and infrastructure, in particular."