shirking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of shirk

noun

1. The act of one who shirks.

   “1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]”

   “Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.”