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Перевод: shiftless

[прилагательное]
беспомощный; неумелый; бесхитростный; ленивый

Тезаурус:

1. Macca got plenty, but I'll cast the decider for Barnes, a shiftless f-er. 343
2. If it hadn't been for your shiftless nephew, Suzie would be back in England by now, my mother wouldn't be having sleepless nights and I could be in London doing the job for which I'm paid!"
3. The conventional wisdom has been that those who left the countryside were the energetic and the intelligent, leaving only a residue of the old and the inert, but we also ought to note that the urban view has often been the exact opposite: that the towns have received the rural dregs - the drifters, the shiftless, the work-shy, the unattached flotsam of agricultural change.
4. I suspect that most of the inhabitants are footloose and shiftless.
5. She was shiftless, had made no provision.
6. We are waiting and trying not to lose faith, but you see we're suffocating oh my shiftless body.
7. She had joined forces with her shiftless family: they were ranged against him, and there was nothing he could do.
8. "Oh, I'm feckless, shiftless, untrustworthy
9. But in the Old World, on the whole, the need for a mobile population was met without creating more than a comparatively modest and impermanent floating population, except in the great shipping ports and, as it were, in the traditional centres of the shifting and shiftless population, such as the great cities.
10. It is, of course, possible that Leapor was not shiftless but very busy.