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

If Big Ma heard Vonetta and saw her standing like a shiftless bum on the comer, we’d be on the next plane back to New York City.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia