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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.
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.
Both share Lord Black's opinion that hacks are a shiftless lot of ignorant and opinionated deadbeats and the fewer the better.
The welfare mother is considered to be lazy and shiftless, shunning work while collecting welfare and passing on bad values to her children.
Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance.

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