| Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker. |
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| A chronic shirker may be ostracized by his colleagues, because by not pulling his weight, he has hurt everyone concerned. |
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| Not being a striver doesn't make you a shirker – it's simply a matter of working to live, not living to work. |
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| On the other hand, during wartime any man not on the frontline and whose injuries were not visible could easily be mistaken for a shirker. |
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| About ten days before the race, Furman began to feel like a shirker for not taking part, so he bought a bicycle and started riding as fast and as far as he could. |
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| Many years ago, an old Norse berserker, told me a stirring tale, a real tear-jerker, about how he'd never been a shirker, when he was a Scandiwegian postal-worker. |
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| A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a scug was considered degenerate. |
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