Crossword clues for shiftlessness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shiftless \Shift"less\, a. 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; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. -- Shift"less*ly, adv. -- Shift"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being shiftless.
WordNet
n. a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition
Usage examples of "shiftlessness".
The same leathery old face with the wind and weather wrinkles in it, the same shaggy brows shielding deep-sunk eyes, the same scraggly crop of whiskers, the same sense of forgotten shiftlessness and driven stubbornness.
It accounted for the change from the happy-go-lucky shiftlessness to the beaten and defeated and driven attitude.