shiftlessness
IPA: ʃˈɪftɫʌsnʌs
noun
- The property of being shiftless.
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Examples of "shiftlessness" in Sentences
- For one thing, they did not have a monopoly on shiftlessness.
- The word shiftlessness or shiftless appears nowhere in my book.
- And to avoid that horror of the real Yankee's dreams, "shiftlessness," she was to take up a small select school for employment.
- When she incessantly denounced the "shiftlessness" of letting a new threshing machine stand unprotected in the open, he eventually built a shed for it.
- He was intolerant of laziness -- "shiftlessness" the country phrase ran -- but he had the reputation of being a just taskmaster and he could be very kind.
- She despises the system of slavery for its "shiftlessness," almost as much as she abhors it for its sinfulness, and scouts expediency when it runs counter to right.
- He repeated to his tut-tutting father that he did not wish to go to college or law-school, and Babbitt was equally disturbed by this "shiftlessness" and by Ted's relations with Eunice
- The Okies fleeing the Midwest droughts of the 1930s were accused in California of "shiftlessness," "lack of ambition," "school overcrowding" and "stealing jobs" from native Californians.
- "shiftlessness" of the people is disgusting enough; but when I see that the disposition to steal the crop is very general, that the people have done and can do it with impunity, I am discouraged about cotton-raising here.
- "shiftlessness," by Northern standards, was not inconsistent with free hospitality, a generous outdoor life, an old-time culture with an atmosphere of leisure and courtesy, superior in its way to what the busy and bustling North could show.