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How to use shiftless in a sentence

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The center of the new play is an amiably shiftless young man on the night watch as security guard at a generic high-rise.
Each day, shiftless young men gather on the outskirts of Riyadh, smoking water pipes and drinking coffee.
If you knew how to take care of people, you could transform 10,000 lazy, shiftless souls into 10,000 eager-to-work-for-you people.
The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children.
Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker.
They hid in saloons, spun lies, spied on people, made less than the corner grocer, and were generally shiftless, lazy bums.
I could have said her son the no good, lazy, shiftless shyster but I'm in a mood to be nice today.
Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance.
Nor are poor whites stereotyped as lazy, shiftless, dangerous, the way poor Blacks are.
The status of the disabled, in his view, is either ambiguous or closer to that of the shiftless and incompetent than to that of the ambitious.
Just as before, the would-be dominators try to convince us that it is necessary to apply a firm hand to the benefit of a shiftless character.
These are greedy, shiftless and lazy people who only use and abuse the soil.
We believe that if we work less and play more, we'll appear shiftless and lazy.
This data exposes as a fallacy the belief that most teens are somehow lazy, shiftless or just uninterested in work.
She tells him about where she was born and how her parents are shiftless and lazy.
Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better.
Which is ironic when a lot of the problem for government in getting shiftless bastards to vote right now is getting them to go down to polling stations in, er, libraries.
Third, he wants to turn America into a Euro-paradise for the shiftless and unmotivated.
Their mother, a shiftless pleasure-seeker, abandons them to different grandmothers without batting an eyelid.
For the four-cylinder owners who wish to be shiftless, the optional automatic is a five-speed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This looked very shiftless, especially in a country abounding in water-power, and reminded me that I was no longer in Yankeeland.
She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward.
If we are idle and shiftless by choice, we shall be nerveless and powerless by necessity.
The shiftless one like himself was a true son of the wilderness and he would be as clever as a fox in finding a warm, dry hole.
Philip was interested in her shiftless life, and she made him laugh with the fantastic narration of her struggles.
Dress a scarecrow in your last shift, you standing shiftless by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow?
Of these professional tramps a great many had, of course, been shiftless and vicious all their lives.
You're about the laziest and most shiftless man I ever came across.
Am I responsible for those too shiftless to fend for themselves?
The vagrant, shiftless freedman was a social problem as well as economic.
This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.
The village life abounds with jokers, Shiftless, conscienceless and shrewd.
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