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
“The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people,” Flannery O’Connor wrote with merciless accuracy, “those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2016
The harder he worked, the deeper C.P. sank into the very rut that had swallowed his father, even as he watched the less talented and shiftless children of the wealthy prosper.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Power Suffix: -less
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