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• s  lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy
  a shiftless student
  studied in a shiftless way

• Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for .
• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious .
• Because when Americans think "Sweden," they think "lazy shiftless blacks.

News & Articles

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• GOP Governor and Former Fox Host: ‘There Seems to Be a War on the Poor’
  In an interview with The New York Times , Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich suggested that Republicans in Washington have been combatant in their handling of poverty-related issues. “I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor,” Kasich said in a story published Tuesday. “That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.”
  Oct. 29, 2013 - Mediaite

Quotes

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• Frank McCourt in New York Times Blogs (blog)
  Wondering how he survived, Mr. McCourt writes, "People everywhere brag about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty, the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by...
• Don King in San Jose Mercury News
  Nobody can say I'm lazy or shiftless,King said, his voice now quiet. "But I'm catching hell with that `lying, cheating and stealing' thing."
• Richard Childress in ESPN
  Their [rear end] needs to be kicked out of there,Richard Childress said. "They're shiftless anyway. They [NASCAR] just need to do something."