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shiftless

/shift-lis/US // ˈʃɪft lɪs //UK // (ˈʃɪftlɪs) //

轮班,轮班制,颠沛流离,挪动

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
    • : lacking in incentive, ambition, or aspiration.

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Examples

  • 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.