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adj. Lacking ambition or purpose; lazy: a shiftless student.

adj. Characterized by a lack of ambition or energy: studied in a shiftless way.

adj. Lacking resourcefulness or efficiency; incompetent.

adj. lazy, unmotivated

adj. untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job

adj. 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

Lacking in resource or energy, or in ability to shift for one's self or one's own; slack in devising or using expedients for the successful accomplishment of anything; deficient in organizing or executive ability; incapable; inefficient; improvident; lazy: as, a shiftless fellow.

Characterized by or characteristic of slackness or inefficiency, especially in shifting for one's self or one's own.

adj. lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy

"It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had sealed his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was tramadol at that moment ironing in the laundry.."

ambitionless    unambitious   

improvident    thriftless    helpless    lazy   

improvident    thriftless    slothful    good-for-nothing    disobedient