Giving a scholarship to that ignorant, shiftless student is an injustice.
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Shiftless
Synonyms for "shiftless" (86 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- мързелив adj (lazy, unmotivated)
Irish
1 entries- gan fónamh adj (lazy, unmotivated)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- ful adj (lazy, unmotivated)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
To expand, without bothering about it—without shiftless timidity on one side, or loquacious eagerness on the other—to the full compass of what he would have called a "pleasant" experience, was Newman's most definite programme of life.
Source: wiktionary
Decades ago, before credit scores, loan officers could make decisions almost whimsically and your fate could hinge on whether you reminded them of someone, or they had slept poorly the night before, or they harbored stereotypes of "shiftless blacks" and "flighty women."
Source: wiktionary
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