shiftless

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Or the shiftless hack who hated his profession?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2021

In that classic American tale by Washington Irving published in 1819, an amiable but shiftless farmer strolls out of his colonial village to go hunting in the Catskill Mountains.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 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 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