SHIFTLESS
\ʃˈɪftləs], \ʃˈɪftləs], \ʃ_ˈɪ_f_t_l_ə_s]\
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Lacking energy; without resource; lazy; thriftless.
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Shiftlessly.
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Shiftlessness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Shiftlessly.
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Shiftlessness.
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Inefficient; incapable.
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Shifty.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
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