Shiftless is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHIFTLESS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• feckless
• characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition
• lacking in ambition or initiative
• 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.
• lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient

Words related to SHIFTLESS

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Words that contain SHIFTLESS

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How to use SHIFTLESS in a sentence

• This Franz Anton was a strange mixture of stalwart and shiftless qualities.
• You are not an ignorant, shiftless fellow, but a man of more than ordinary intelligence among your people, and one who ought to know better.
• He was adventurous, restless, shiftless, and he felt ill at ease and cramped by the presence of more industrious neighbors.
• Having a shiftless neighbor whose yard produced a bountiful crop of the article, I was easily able to secure an abundant supply for my experiments.
• I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
• The poor shiftless thing having placed the baby on the floor again, began to stir about and make ready.
• They had met several times before on the levee at night, for the officer, himself a lover of music, had been attracted by the exquisite whistling of the shiftless vagabond.
• They would still have to work for their living as they do now, and being naturally indolent and shiftless would probably fare much worse.
• Miserable as it had been, there had been in it a certain element of shiftless ease and happiness.
• Then the shiftless one went to work with extraordinary diligence and the others imitated his speed.
• Better far to have the end come now than to marry a dependent and shiftless man, who will humiliate your pride by a thousand and one mean traits.
• This was washing day, and those shiftless ones within would overlook half the linen unless she was on the spot to watch and direct.
• In nothing are the money-grasping and shiftless habits of America rendered more apparent, than in the inferiority of her places of public resort.
• He was a shiftless mortal and half intoxicated and did not care much what became of himself.
• The Coes, a shiftless, harmless set, lived much secluded, and were often the objects of charity, and as such somewhat under the patronage of Mrs.
• After his wife died, Bill, it seems, went to the dogs, followed his naturally shiftless bent, and, from a common vagrant, became a drunkard and common thief.
• The shiftless one was far beyond the farthest outpost of his kind, beyond the broad yellow current of the Mississippi, deep in the heart of the primeval forest.
• Nor did the shiftless one himself discern any alien note.
• He might have eaten there in silence and obscurity, but once more the shiftless one showed a singular lack of caution and woodcraft.
• Any savage, roaming the wilderness, might see it, but the shiftless one was reckless.
• The sun, a golden ball, sank behind a hill in the west, and then the shiftless one stopped.
• It seemed to the shiftless one that he lay in the very lap of luxury, in the very best of worlds.
• The shiftless one was gazing back upon his own trail, and the singular look of exaltation upon his face deepened.
• In fact, the shiftless one, who was the scout the following night, returned with a story that the Spanish camp was greatly agitated.
• But the shiftless one, fit son of the wilderness, was never more awake in his life.
• The shiftless one was a cautious man and he knew the danger of chills and fever.
• What shiftless wretch was doing the parlor floor, and she a useless block in her room! The shock told.
• They were the last members of a shiftless, indolent family who had lived on the edge of Millville for twenty years.
• It is just such fellows who are inclined to be shiftless and who are generally crowded out in the fight for life.
• Some may be more shiftless than others and may need more attention, while others may be merely awaiting the touch of sympathy and the helping hand to make strong men out of them.
• There was nothing unjust about such a course, he argued, for Negroes anyway were too lazy and shiftless to buy the land.

Similar words containing SHIFTLES without suffix s

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