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synonyms for shiftless
- apathetic
- dallying
- directionless
- good-for-nothing
- idle
- inattentive
- incompetent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- lethargic
- lifeless
- loafing
- procrastinating
- slack
- slothful
- unambitious
- unenergetic
- unindustrious
- unmotivated
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How to use shiftless in a sentence
He was a shiftless loser, and now he lives and works on a ranch where he can learn the value of a hard day’s work.
Yellowstone is one of TV’s biggest hits. What’s Yellowstone, anyway? | Emily VanDerWerff | November 5, 2021 | VoxElaine is not some shiftless next-door neighbor whom you can attack with impunity, some member of a competing tribe who must be dispatched with dispatch.
Gene Weingarten: My new housemate and a prescription for world peace | Gene Weingarten | September 2, 2021 | Washington PostA self-review of “shiftless When Idle”: title—good; song—kinda.
The Return of the Replacements: Here Comes a Regular | Elizabeth Wurtzel | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Third, he wants to turn America into a Euro-paradise for the shiftless and unmotivated.
Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney’s Outside Pitch | Michael Tomasky | January 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe other side can't stand the idea of taking wealth from hard-working Us to shiftless and lazy Them.
There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonVerena was a poor old widow, doddering and shiftless: Charity suspected that she came for her keep.
Summer | Edith WhartonAll went well till lazy and shiftless immigrants arrived to enjoy the paradise also.
The Complete Club Book for Women | Caroline French BentonYet he did not retreat from his moral and intellectual standards, or lose the respect of that shiftless community.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThose who did so were usually the land speculators and people of weak, irresolute, or shiftless character.
The Old Northwest | Frederic Austin Ogg
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