Definitionadj. lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative
Last update: October 21, 2015
2
I found myself shiftless in solving these problems. [adjective]
0
"He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased. [adjective]
0
His father, Thomas (1778-1851), was born in Rockingham (then Augusta) county, Virginia; he was hospitable, shiftless, restless and unsuccessful, working now as a carpenter and now as a farmer, and could not read or write before his marriage, in Washington county, Kentucky, on the 12th of June 1806, to Nancy Hanks (1783-1818), who was a native of Virginia, who is said to have been the illegitimate daughter of one Lucy Hanks, and who seems to have been, in 1 Lincoln's birthday is a legal holiday in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. [adjective]
0
"He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased. [Please select]
0
There was no hopeless, shiftless, invincible idleness about him. [Please select]
0
Happy Jack Squirrel says that every blessed one of them is shiftless. [Please select]
0
He was shiftless and lazy, but he had a code of honor. [Please select]
0
What the dove finds to adore so ardently in the "shiftless housewife," as Mrs. [Please select]
0
So it is no wonder he was rather shiftless and easy-going. [Please select]
0
Yet in the farmer's eye it was "shiftless" (the New Englander's bogy). [Please select]
0
There's a sight of lazy, shiftless boys about in these days. [Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!