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

“The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people,” Flannery O’Connor wrote with merciless accuracy, “those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2016

I prefer to watch it on my own shiftless terms.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2016

The harder he worked, the deeper C.P. sank into the very rut that had swallowed his father, even as he watched the less talented and shiftless children of the wealthy prosper.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson