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Definition of Shiftless
1. Adjective. Lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy. "Studied in a shiftless way"
Definition of Shiftless
1. a. Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
Definition of Shiftless
1. Adjective. lazy, unmotivated ¹
2. Adjective. untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shiftless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiftless
Literary usage of Shiftless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"(This " shiftless " class forms 18 % of the number who pay their rent.) lumi.
... "shiftless" CUM ( CMM 38, 42, 43 ), " slovenly ' and unkempt in person,'' ..."
2. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1898)
"Although he was without vices, the shiftless management of his pecuniary affairs
brought him into many difficulties, but he left a library of more than ..."
3. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... are—The industrious at the mercy of the lazy and shiftless— Conditions must
be equalized before an income tax can be collected—The greed of corporations ..."
4. Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery by Noah Brooks (1894)
"Taylor—Return to Springfield—The Boys of Lincoln—A Shiftless Relative. IT was
said of Lincoln that he was a born politician and that, as a political prophet ..."
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