A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
A person without ambition is said to be shiftless .
Thee COMEDY: These always charming, sometimes shiftless, talented men imbue their physical talent with a good dose of Chaplinesque humor.
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.
This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's still extant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.
Bald headed young men pushing forward, rings in their ears, rape in their shiftless eyes.
Wu Kang was a shiftless fellow who changed apprenticeships all the time.
