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What does shiftless mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shiftless? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. lazy, unmotivated
  2. untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job
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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.
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.
Nor are poor whites stereotyped as lazy, shiftless, dangerous, the way poor Blacks are.
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.
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.

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