avoid one's duty
Frequency: 5.01.8 per million words
To stay away from a responsibility.
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- He tried to avoid his duty of reporting the error, hoping no one would notice.
- As a citizen, you should not avoid your duty to serve on a jury if called.
- She was criticized for avoiding her parental duties when her children needed her most.
- The company was fined for avoiding its legal duty to ensure workplace safety.
- Avoiding your duty might seem easy now, but it will cause problems later.
- He consistently avoids his duty to take minutes during meetings.
- I felt guilty for avoiding my duty to visit my sick grandmother.
- No soldier should avoid their duty to protect their country.
- His tendency to avoid any difficult duty made him an unreliable team member.
- The manager made it clear that no one could avoid their assigned duties during the project.