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SHIFTLESS

\ʃˈɪftləs], \ʃˈɪftləs], \ʃ_ˈɪ_f_t_l_ə_s]\

Definitions of SHIFTLESS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary

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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.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

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.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Lacking energy; without resource; lazy; thriftless.
Shiftlessly.
Shiftlessness.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Destitute of shifts or expedients: unsuccessful, for want of proper means.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

Destitute of expedients, or resources.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

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