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n. A person, especially a soldier, who avoids assigned duties or work; a shirker.

verb-intransitive. To shirk one's assigned duties or responsibilities.

v. To cheat; swindle.

n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; also used figuratively.

n. A shirker or malingerer

n. A swindler

v. To shirk or malinger

v. To swindle

n. an idle worthless person.

n. a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

v. avoid (one's assigned duties)

n. anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless

n. an idle worthless person

v. deprive of by deceit

n. a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not

"Such activities might have included producing vituperative TV ads calling a decorated-war-hero senator a goldbrick, or sponsoring hysterical Web sites accusing the president's father of being King Faisal's fifth wife."

goldbricking    goldbricks   

soldier    shirker    slacker    fraudulence    put-on   

goof-off    ne'er-do-well    good-for-nothing    good-for-naught