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单词 shiftlessness
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ˈshiftlessness
ˈshiftlessness n.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > lack of resourcefulness
fecklessness1637
shiftlessness1682
helplessness1731
weirdlessness1825
self-helplessness1853
unshiftiness1870
sleevelessness1882
1682 J. Flavell Righteous Man's Refuge in Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) 265 The misery and shiftlessness of their condition.
1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 16 In the long period of his [sc. the scholar's] preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cxii. 608 The larger cities..where recent emigrants, with the shiftlessness of Europe still clinging round them, are huddled together in squalor.
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