shirk
IPA: ʃˈɝk
noun
- One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
- (Islam) The unforgivable sin of association [of something with God].
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
- (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
- (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
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Examples of "shirk" in Sentences
- Outsiders don't always take SSHRC (always pronounced "shirk") as seriously as SSHRC would like.
- Never one to shirk from a challenge, I replied: Some friends of mine decided to remodel their kitchen.
- First and foremost - tell a time travel story that does not shirk from a confrontation with the paradoxes.
- After football and prayers the boys sat cross-legged on the floor while Faisal spoke to them about "shirk" - the sin of worshipping Gods other than Allah.
- She doesn't shirk from the realities that surround the economy, but neither does she give in to those who always seem to see the doom and gloom, rather than the shimmer of hope.
- Even more suspiciously the word shirk and shark around this time held this same identical meaning-though there's no indication why someone might apply a word meaning "cheat" to a huge weird fish.
- It does point out that there was an Austrian-German word for a sturgeon that was similar and also that the word shirk was being used in English before this to mean a person of little use, and a cheater.
- Normally, I’d shirk from the suggestion of having a “pro” wrestler play the lead in a Marvel blockbuster, but given the character in question, casting anyone lacking the physique of such a wrestler would simply set things up poorly.
- [FN#57] There is a play upon words in this line, founded upon the double meaning of the word shirk, sharing (or partnership) and polytheism or the attributing partners or equals to God (as in the Trinity), the one unpardonable sin of the Muslim religious code.
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