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He was a shiftless loser, and now he lives and works on a ranch where he can learn the value of a hard day’s work.

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Elaine is not some shiftless next-door neighbor whom you can attack with impunity, some member of a competing tribe who must be dispatched with dispatch.

A self-review of “Shiftless When Idle”: title—good; song—kinda.

Third, he wants to turn America into a Euro-paradise for the shiftless and unmotivated.

The other side can't stand the idea of taking wealth from hard-working Us to shiftless and lazy Them.

There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.

Verena was a poor old widow, doddering and shiftless: Charity suspected that she came for her keep.

All went well till lazy and shiftless immigrants arrived to enjoy the paradise also.

Yet he did not retreat from his moral and intellectual standards, or lose the respect of that shiftless community.

Those who did so were usually the land speculators and people of weak, irresolute, or shiftless character.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shiftless, such as: apathetic, dallying, directionless, good-for-nothing, idle, and inattentive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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