meaning of shiftless
1. Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for ones own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
2. lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless
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