Translations for „shirker“ in the English » German Dictionary

shirk·er [ˈʃɜ:kəʳ, Am ˈʃɜ:rkɚ] N pej

shirker

Drückeberger(in) m (f) inf

she is no shirker of a tough decision

sie scheut vor unangenehmen Entscheidungen nicht zurück

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

she is no shirker of a tough decision

sie scheut vor unangenehmen Entscheidungen nicht zurück

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

A shirker on the pitch, seemingly ambivalent off it.

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This is likely to be a by-product of many teachers' phobia of being regarded as a shirker.

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One has almost as great a contempt for her as one has for the shirker since both are cowards.

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The shirker is out of all this.

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John, never a shirker, worked at a butcher's between voyages.

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True it is that the shirker, mean and miserable, still lurks in his lair.

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People were more likely to gossip about shirkers to colleagues - who belong to the same group as the shirker and the person spreading the gossip - than to friends.

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It is fighting all-in now, and the slacker and the shirker merit only a noose of rope.

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He was a shameless, shameful shirker.

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While certainly more fortunate than just about anyone else you could think of, a shirker he isn't, and frankly, why should we begrudge him a short break now and then?

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