shiftless
Example Sentences
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I knew it was chosen and served with care, and at a moment where I was feeling sleepy and shiftless, it called me.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2023
Or the shiftless hack who hated his profession?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2021
Colm Meaney plays a shiftless guy in late-80s Ireland who is reasonably happy on welfare but has a Damascene conversion to entrepreneurialism.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2020
Really, why not go all the way to shiftless?
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018
How can you linger on this island, aimless and shiftless, while your people waste away?’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.