shiftless in English
a shiftless lot of good-for-nothings
Use "shiftless" in a sentence
1. He's lazy and shiftless.
2. The other has been lazy and shiftless.
3. He lives in a shiftless way.
4. She was shiftless, had made no provision.
5. Pepino must be a fool as well as a shiftless rascal.
6. That was little more than the shiftless Slatterys raised.
7. Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
8. Don't hang around that shiftless guy. You don't know what he will do.
9. She worked hard but she had to support a shiftless husband.
10. Antonyms for Ambitious include lazy, ambitionless, unAmbitious, unmotivated, apathetic, indolent, unaspiring, otiose, shiftless and slack
11. Academically Adrift is not, however, a book about lazy professors, shiftless students, and spineless administrators
12. In retrospect, I was a sad little boy and a standard-issue, shiftless, egotistical, dejected teen-ager.
13. We are waiting and trying not to lose faith, but you see we're suffocating ... oh my shiftless body.
14. And last but not least, there are all those damn kids sharing files and scaring the media moguls shiftless.
15. Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining.
16. Bullfighter (14) IMDb 2.1 1 h 26 min 2000 R A shiftless drifter fascinated with bullfighting is implicated in the accidental goring death of a crime boss' daughter and …
17. Sabin; The historian remarks: "The Cloddish, shiftless farmer is perhaps safer in Massachusetts." Extract from : « A Truthful Woman in Southern California » by Kate Sanborn
18. Busker (n.) "itinerant entertainer," 1857, from busk (v.) "to offer goods for sale only in bars and taprooms," 1851 (in Mayhew), which is perhaps from busk "to cruise as a pirate," which was used in a figurative sense by 1841, in reference to people living shiftless and peripatetic lives; compare the nautical sense of busk (v.).