Synonym: do-nothing, indolent, inefficient, lazy. Similar words: shift, makeshift, tactlessness, limitlessness, witless, rootless, tactless, spotless. Meaning: ['ʃɪftlɪs] adj. lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy.
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1. He called the young people shiftless, lazy and good-for-nothing.
2. She was shiftless, had made no provision.
3. She had joined forces with her shiftless family: they were ranged against him(sentencedict.com), and there was nothing he could do.
4. The other has been lazy and shiftless.
5. Ward Kimball remembered a shiftless childhood, attending twenty-two schools.
6. He lives in a shiftless way.
7. That was little more than the shiftless Slatterys raised.
8. He's lazy and shiftless.
9. Such shiftless management, such waste, such confusion, I never saw.
10. Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
11. Don't hang around that shiftless guy. You don't know what he will do.
12. She worked hard but she had to support a shiftless husband.
13. Pepino must be a fool as well as a shiftless rascal.
14. We are waiting and trying not to lose faith, but you see we're suffocating ... oh my shiftless body.
15. And last but not least, there are all those damn kids sharing files and scaring the media moguls shiftless.
16. I suspect that most of the inhabitants are footloose and shiftless.
17. Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining.
18. In retrospect, I was a sad little boy and a standard-issue, shiftless, egotistical, dejected teen-ager.
19. Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.
20. They also gave him seventy silver shekels from the temple of Baal of Berith, with which Abimelech hired shiftless men and ruffians as his followers.
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