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shiftless

adjective

shift·​less ˈshif(t)-ləs How to pronounce shiftless (audio)
1
: lacking in resourcefulness : inefficient
2
: lacking in ambition or incentive : lazy
shiftless freeloaders
shiftlessly adverb
shiftlessness noun

Example Sentences

shiftless spongers who never thought to do anything for themselves
Recent Examples on the Web Their anger focused on a faceless government that neglected people like them and on supposedly shiftless immigrants and minorities who feasted at the public trough. Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020 Stereotypes of unemployed, shiftless man-children playing X-Box in their parents’ basement aren’t really borne out by the data. Matt Levin, The Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2019 Among them was Boy (2010), a poignant coming-of-age dramedy about a kid whose obsession with Michael Jackson offers him an escape from dealing with his shiftless father. Aja Romano, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018 Last year, Buffalo Wild Wings expressed concern about millennials, and what those shiftless kids could do to the chicken-wing-and-plasma-screen trade. Jason Gay, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018 Or the shiftless pool man whose slide into despair seems to parallel the fires and mudslides that are chewing up the hills around him. Steve Marble, latimes.com, 24 Jan. 2018 This project has portrayed social housing as a repository for the idle and shiftless, meaning that the grievances of tenants, like those in Grenfell Tower, can be dismissed as grumbles of entitlement. Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

shift (resourcefulness)

First Known Use

1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of shiftless was in 1584

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