shiftless
/ˈʃɪftləs
/adjective
Characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition: a shiftless lot of good-for-nothings...
- Anyone who believes that unions serve a function in this day and age is a lazy, good-for-nothing, shiftless shirker.
- ‘I think immigrants think we're lazy, shiftless, good-for-nothing,’ she says.
- I could have said her son the no good, lazy, shiftless shyster but I'm in a mood to be nice today.
Synonyms
lazy, idle, indolent, slothful, lethargic, lackadaisical;
spiritless, apathetic, improvident, aimless, worthless, feckless, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well;
inefficient, incompetent, inept, unambitious, unenterprising
Derivatives
shiftlessly
- I've come to the realization that I more or less float shiftlessly from one idea or desire to the next.
- His characters tend to be laid back and fairly at ease, meandering shiftlessly and still accomplishing something.
- As a mid-level bureaucrat in the provincial civil service, ‘I was aimlessly and shiftlessly moving along in my life working for the province,’ he recalls.
shiftlessness
- There have been suicides passed off as accidents and shiftlessness indulgently termed wanderlust.
- When he was still in his 20s, a steady descent into corpulence, shiftlessness and defensive irony began.
- So our nation, through shiftlessness and lack of interest, is losing the war on cancer.
- state hospital
- state house
- state housing
- state law
- state legislation
- state legislator
- state legislature
- stateless
- statelessness
- statelet
- state letter
- statelihood
- statelily
- state line
- stateliness
- stately
- stately home
- state machine
- statement
- statemental
- statement form
- statement of affairs
- statement of claim
- statemonger
- Staten Island