shiftless

Example Sentences

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I knew it was chosen and served with care, and at a moment where I was feeling sleepy and shiftless, it called me.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2023

Or the shiftless hack who hated his profession?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 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

If Big Ma heard Vonetta and saw her standing like a shiftless bum on the comer, we’d be on the next plane back to New York City.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia