Related Words for shiftless

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feckless
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Adjective
lazy
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Adjective
slothful
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Adjective
slovenly
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Adjective
indolent
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Adjective
aimless
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Adjective
dissolute
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Adjective
uneducated
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Adjective
sullen
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Adjective
unmotivated
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Adjective
impoverished
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Adjective
apathetic
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Adjective
improvident
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Adjective
illiterate
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Adjective
shifty
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Adjective
unemployed
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Adjective
hardworking
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Adjective
disaffected
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Adjective
rootless
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Adjective
ignorant
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Adjective
vagabond
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Noun
avaricious
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Adjective
conniving
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Noun
underemployed
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Adjective
incorrigible
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Adjective
inarticulate
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Adjective
discontented
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Adjective
unskilled
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Adjective
promiscuous
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Adjective
ungrateful
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Adjective
bumbling
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Adjective
thieving
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Noun
unintelligent
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Adjective
philandering
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Noun
penniless
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Adjective
drunken
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Adjective
disloyal
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Adjective
boorish
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Adjective
inert
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Adjective
dull
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Adjective
sluggish
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Adjective
listless
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Adjective
torpid
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Adjective
inefficient
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Adjective
lethargic
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Adjective
idle
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Adjective
heartless
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Adjective
thoughtless
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Adjective
dispirited
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Adjective
slack
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Noun
drained
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Verb
untidy
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Adjective
lousy
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Adjective
hapless
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Adjective
remiss
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Adjective
tardy
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Adjective
heavy
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Adjective
luckless
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Adjective
meek
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Noun
ineffectual
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Adjective
restless
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Adjective
dejected
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Adjective
disorganized
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Adjective
shabby
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Adjective
tired
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Adjective
languishing
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Adjective
disgruntled
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Adjective
truant
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Noun
spendthrift
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Noun
callow
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Noun
languid
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Adjective
helpless
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Adjective
bungling
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Noun
unimpressive
xx/x
Adjective
scrawny
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Adjective
asleep
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Adverb
halfhearted
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Adjective
slow
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Adjective
mindless
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Adjective
disheartened
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Verb
negligent
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Adjective
indifferent
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Adjective
desultory
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Adjective
facile
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Noun
casual
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Adjective
flaccid
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Adjective
unmindful
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Adjective
lifeless
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Adjective
infirm
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Noun
depressed
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Adjective
scruffy
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Adjective
lackluster
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Adjective
vagrants
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Noun
bums
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Noun
drunkard
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Noun
poor
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Noun
lot
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Noun
husband
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Noun
negroes
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Noun
whites
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Noun
farmers
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Noun
tenants
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Noun
fellows
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Noun
father
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Noun
blacks
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Noun
folks
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Noun
one
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Noun
creature
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Noun
indians
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Name
habits
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Noun
sort
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Noun
youth
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Noun
son
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Noun
existence
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Noun
family
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Noun
parents
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Noun
brother
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Noun
individual
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Noun
class
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Noun
lives
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Noun
ways
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Noun
man
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Noun
character
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Noun
cantankerous
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Adjective
destitute
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Adjective, Verb
disreputable
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Adjective, Noun
downtrodden
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Adjective
easygoing
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Adjective
fearing
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Adjective, Noun
hearted
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Adjective
industrious
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Adjective
nonworking
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Adjective
quarrelsome
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Adjective
talkative
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Adjective
shirtless
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Adjective
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb
die
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Verb, Noun
stonewall
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Name, Verb, Adjective
milestone
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Noun, Verb