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

Really, why not go all the way to shiftless?

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2018

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald