Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shiftless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shiftless \Shift"less\, 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. -- {Shift"less*ly}, adv. --
{Shift"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shiftless
adj : lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative;
lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless
way"
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