shiftless
Lazy, unmotivated.
Adjective
- Lazy, unmotivated.
- 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...
- 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...
- Untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job.
- Destitute of shifts or expedients; lacking proper means.
Origin
Etymology tree English shift Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English shiftless From shift + -less.