shirking
Evading one's responsibilities
Shirking is avoiding work or responsibility, especially duties you're supposed to perform.
The word implies laziness or deliberate evasion rather than legitimate inability: He was accused of shirking his duties.
Someone who shirks is a shirker.
No shirking—we need all hands on deck.
Passing time idly
- slackingAvoiding effort deliberately
- idlingOperating without working
- loungingReclining in idleness
- malingeringFabricating symptoms for gain
goldbricking · lazing · dawdling · lollygagging · sluggishness · indolence · lethargy · listlessness
Fabricating symptoms for gain
- feigningPretending to feel something
- pretendingSimulating what isn't real
- fakingSimulating something false
- dissemblingConcealing true motives
shamming · bluffing · play-acting · making excuses · fabricating · falsifying · misrepresenting · pretense
Avoiding by moving aside
- sidesteppingMoving aside to avoid
- evadingSkillfully keeping away from
- duckingBending to avoid impact
- circumventingAvoiding by going around
bypassing · escape · elusion · deflection · skirting · hedging · equivocating · slipping away
Abandonment of duty
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- inattentionLack of focus
oversight · remissness · carelessness · omission · laxity · slackness · default · forsaking
Tendency to disappoint expectations
- undependabilityTrait of failing commitments
- untrustworthinessBeing unreliable or deceitful
- recklessnessCareless disregard for danger
- fecklessnessIrresponsible lack of initiative
heedlessness · thoughtlessness · carelessness · improvidence · unaccountability · flakiness · fickleness · inconstancy
loafing
Passing time idly
malingering · goldbricking · lazing · dawdling · lollygagging · sluggishness · indolence · lethargy · listlessness · torpor
malingering
Fabricating symptoms for gain
- feigningPretending to feel something
- pretendingSimulating what isn't real
- fakingSimulating something false
dissembling · shamming · bluffing · play-acting · making excuses · fabricating · falsifying · misrepresenting · pretense · simulation
dodging
Avoiding by moving aside
- sidesteppingMoving aside to avoid
- evadingSkillfully keeping away from
- duckingBending to avoid impact
circumventing · bypassing · escape · elusion · deflection · skirting · hedging · equivocating · slipping away · getting around
dereliction
Abandonment of duty
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
inattention · oversight · remissness · carelessness · omission · laxity · slackness · default · forsaking · failing
unreliability
Tendency to disappoint expectations
- undependabilityTrait of failing commitments
- untrustworthinessBeing unreliable or deceitful
- recklessnessCareless disregard for danger
fecklessness · heedlessness · thoughtlessness · carelessness · improvidence · unaccountability · flakiness · fickleness · inconstancy · delinquency
- bad behaviorcheating, stealing, lying, greed, selfishness
- minor offensesminor offense, white lie, petty offense, fib, jaywalking
- incentive theorymoral hazard, adverse selection, principal-agent, signaling, screening
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- cowardicecoward, cowardly, craven, gutless, spineless
- defiancedefiance, disobedience, insubordination, noncompliance, rebellion
shirkingdiligence
Careful, persistent effort
industriousness · toiling · laboring · applying oneself · persevering
shirkingaccepting
Willing to receive
fulfilling · shouldering · embracing · assuming · undertaking