Crossword-Solution: SHIFTLESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shiftless | a. | 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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SHIFTLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | 1 answer |
| lacking in ambition or initiative | 1 answer |
| Unambitious to the max | 1 answer |
| Like Modigliani's "Reclining Nude"? | 1 answer |
| Lazy, indolent, and lacking ambition | 1 answer |
| Lazy to the max | 1 answer |
| Lazy and lacking ambition | 1 answer |
| ... like a factory worker? | 1 answer |
| Lacking ambition | 2 answers |
| Idle and then some | 2 answers |
| BONE idle | 7 answers |
| Good-for-nothing | 24 answers |
| Ne'er-do-well | 26 answers |
| wasteful | 41 answers |
| Inefficient | 44 answers |
| lazy person | 47 answers |
| Indolent | 56 answers |
| Lazy | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHIFTLESS (5)
This afternoon I went over my linen supply, and made the shocking discovery that we have only sheets enough to change the children's beds every two weeks, which, it appears, is our shiftless custom.
When I knew him he was a shiftless young spendthrift, boisterous, goodhearted, full of careless generosities, and pretty conspicuously promising to fool his possibilities away early, and come to nothing.
But I always liked Dave Lilly, he was pleasant as you could wish; He was shiftless and good-for-nothing, but he certainly could fish.
And when she threw a shovel of coals on Bill Ramsdell's dog, because Bill was a shiftless lout, and the dog was so starved it all the time came over and sucked our eggs, that was a bad impulse, because it didn't do Bill a particle of good, and it hurt the dog, which would have been glad to suck eggs at home, no doubt, if Bill hadn't been too worthless to keep hens.
One summer, while visiting in the little village among the Green Mountains where her ancestors had dwelt for generations, she had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of those extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of twenty-one sometimes inspires in an angular, spectacled woman of thirty.
Quotes with SHIFTLESS (3)
Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many ways, but this is the original: The Cold Within Six men trapped by happenstance, in bleak and bitter cold Each possessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told. Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back For of the faces round the fire, he noticed one was black. One man looking cross the way, saw one not of his church And could not bring himself …
The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story's told. The first woman held hers back For of the faces around the fire, She noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw not one of his church, And couldn't bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch. The third one sat in tattered clothes He gave his coat a hitch, Why should his log be put to use, To warm the idle rich? The…
Inside, Harrison came face to face witha small man wearing immense plus fours.“Looking for someone?” asked the small man.“Yes, the fire chief.”“Who’s he?” By now prepared for this sort of thing, Harrisonspoke as one would to a child. “See here, Mister, thisis a fire-fighting outfit. Somebody bosses it. Somebodyorganizes the whole affair, fills forms, pressesbuttons, shouts orders, recommends promotions, kicks the shiftless, grabs all the credit, transfers allthe blame and gen…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1977–2017).