I know that many members of the public rant and rage about the shirkers, the skivers and the scroungers.
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Pensioner applicants are not skivers and must not be made to feel uncomfortable when they make their claims.
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Are all those people skivers, shirkers and scroungers?
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Disconnections would only help the skivers at the expense of the honest customer.
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They are not; they are something very old in politics—skivers.
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They are not skivers by any stretch of the imagination.
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These are not skivers or shirkers; they are men who genuinely want work and who cannot find it.
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Unfortunately, the idle, the skivers and the rogues are often very much better off than the conscientious ones.
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Theskiver, the bogus sick and the persistent absentee are no friends of the workers on our shop floor.
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This group of people at that age are not the malingerers or the "skivers" whom we hear so much about in a number of industries today.
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They resent being regarded as a crowd of overpaid skivers who do not work hard enough and whose numbers should be cut by two or three in each department.
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These young people are not skivers.
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