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Shiftlessness

noun
1.
A failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition.





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"Shiftlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the profound discouragement that blights or blasts all but a small area of our modern civilization—a discouragement due in part to ignorance—but not at all to the cause usually assigned—to "natural shiftlessness." It is chiefly due to an unconscious instinctive feeling of the hopelessness of ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... and pompousness, but she had never known the polysyllables to accompany so simple a manner. She had seen men slouching around in old straw hats-and shoddy gray trousers and negligee shirts with the tie askew, and the clothes had spelled poverty or shiftlessness. Whereas they made Holman Sommers look like a great man indulging himself in the luxury of old ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower


Words linked to "Shiftlessness" :   laziness, shiftless, indolence


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