单词	shiftlessly
释义	shiftless adjective shift·​less ˈshif(t)-ləs  1 : lacking in resourcefulness : inefficient 2 : lacking in ambition or incentive : lazy shiftless freeloaders shiftlessly adverb shiftlessness noun Synonyms idle indolent lazy slothful See all Synonyms & Antonyms 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 Kids Definition shiftless adjective shift·​less ˈshift-ləs  : lazy sense 1 shiftlessly adverb as in casually Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance casually lazily sluggishly wearily halfheartedly languidly desultorily listlessly tiredly lackadaisically indolently spiritlessly Antonyms & Near Antonyms hard hardly intensely purposefully determinedly diligently actively resolutely intensively assiduously laboriously doggedly arduously strenuously mightily intently vigorously industriously dynamically energetically continuously slavishly briskly steadily vehemently feverishly zealously busily sedulously animatedly unremittingly amain steadfastly spiritedly unabatedly unrelentingly ploddingly See More
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