shiftless

How To Use shiftless In A Sentence

• If you knew how to take care of people, you could transform 10,000 lazy, shiftless souls into 10,000 eager-to-work-for-you people.
• She worked hard but she had to support a shiftless husband.
• shiftless idle youth
• Of old he had been known as a shiftless and harddrinking mountaineer with a sour farm that was plastered with mortgages. His Dog
• That's just the lazy shiftlessness of your folks," responded Ezekiel with prompt ungallantry. The Argonauts of North Liberty
• It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had sealed his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was flexeril at that moment ironing in the laundry.. Rob Savage
• Just as before, the would-be dominators try to convince us that it is necessary to apply a firm hand to the benefit of a shiftless character.
• Don't hang around that shiftless guy. You don't know what he will do.
• Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.
• The result of this is that production of wealth is derogated, seen as the domain of the poor, the shiftless, the stupid, and the foreign, while the really important tasks—increasing the quantity of money that one holds—is the job for an educated and enlightened person. Archive 2009-05-01