shiftlessness
无力感,不动产,不动摇,不稳定
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Definitions
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- : lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- : lacking in incentive, ambition, or aspiration.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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.