"shirking" meaning in English

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          "text": "1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography\nAutobiography […] 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 […]"
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          "text": "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.",
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