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Marinetti emerges as a kind of anarchic scout leader and André Breton, Surrealism’s founder, comes across as a work-shy dilettante.
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Orlando Whitfield, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, in the eyes of Western missionaries and businessmen alike, non-Westerners were collectively indicted as work-shy and incapable of proper time management.
—Vanessa Ogle, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2015
Disillusion with work—or as some may see it, a work-shy tendency—isn’t a fair stereotype to brand across all young talent, the founders feel.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
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Orlando Whitfield, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, in the eyes of Western missionaries and businessmen alike, non-Westerners were collectively indicted as work-shy and incapable of proper time management.
—Vanessa Ogle, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2015
Disillusion with work—or as some may see it, a work-shy tendency—isn’t a fair stereotype to brand across all young talent, the founders feel.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
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“Work-shy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work-shy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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