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shiftlessness

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Shiftlessness is a fine art with them, they've carried it so far.

This same poverty and shiftlessness you find among the peasants almost everywhere.

It cultivates laziness, indecision, shiftlessness, slackness and many other undesirable habits of thought and action.

Labor saves us from the chaos of sloth, the pains of shiftlessness.

Stories were told of her dirt and shiftlessness, of the hens which roosted in her kitchen.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shiftlessness, such as: apathy, dilatoriness, dormancy, dreaminess, drowsiness, and dullness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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