shiftless
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Once the swiftlets are settled in their nests, he said, they let him pet them.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
But as its human population has swelled to 250,000, fewer swiftlets have come into the city.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
The birds were plentiful as recently in 2010, when Yusmida converted the top two floors of her house into a home for swiftlets.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
The largest structures in Tanjung Batu are three- or four-story concrete birdhouses, featureless except for rows of small holes to admit swiftlets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Masked wood-swallows, swiftlets, spangled drongos, leaden fly-eaters, barred-shouldered fly-eaters, hurry to the circus to desolate it with hungry swoops.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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Power Suffix: -less
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