shiftless
Example Sentences
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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
I prefer to watch it on my own shiftless terms.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2016
I kept up my shiftless poking about the place, wandering up and down from time to time by the longbeds.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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