0 lazy and not having much determination or a clear purpose:
He called the young people shiftless, lazy and good-for-nothing.
1 not having determination or purpose:
He says only the shiftless are unemployed.
The woman who is mentally sub-normal, or the man who is shiftless and irresponsible, is not likely to queue up outside the clinics.
They have been referred to as shiftless council tenants, second-class citizens, enjoying subsidised rents.
The boys developed into lazy, shiftless, workless men.
It applies to the shiftless, to those who will not work as well as to those who cannot work.
It does not mean that they are shiftless or lazy.
There are those who think that by these increases we are encouraging people to be idle and shiftless.
Words such as "shiftless", "workshy"or"scroungers" have been used deliberately.
The welfare system was increasingly seen not as a safety net for the luckless, but as a bed for the shiftless.
