Definitionn. a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition
Last update: June 18, 2015
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Owing mainly to the utter shiftlessness of the settlers and the great mortality among them, but partly to an attack by a body of natives, this first attempt proved a complete failure. [Please select]
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The Dow family, hard-working and thrifty, and the Nolans, notorious for their laziness and shiftlessness, each received a hundred dollars outright. [Please select]
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His mother inherited the shiftlessness and carelessness which is part and parcel of "poor white." [Please select]
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Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life. [Please select]
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Personally I find that my shiftlessness in regard to some of my work is appalling. [Please select]
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Too often he allows what little garden he has to be choked with weeds through his shiftlessness. [Please select]
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Poteet an appearance of forlorn shiftlessness that was not even slightly justified by the facts. [Please select]
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“So they say, sir,” said the schoolmaster, smartly; “though, from my own experience of the shiftlessness of necessitous folk, I’ve been tempted to doubt the truth of the proverb. [Please select]
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He repeated to his tut-tutting father that he did not wish to go to college or law-school, and Babbitt was equally disturbed by this "shiftlessness" and by Ted's relations with Eunice Littlefield, next door. [Please select]
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