Use "shiftless" in a sentence

1. “Hey Squire, you shiftless vagabond! Good to see you! All right, make some room for the Prince and his guests!” she called, directing that last at those around her as she stood up to offer Reen a friendly embrace

2. Before then, before your graveyard shift, do not let that organ be shiftless; instead let it roam about all those heights and valleys of mortal comprehension and seek out novelty where there once was dark incomprehension

3. It is not the irreclaimably destitute, shiftless, and worthless which it is truly beneficial or truly benevolent for the individual to attempt to reach and improve

4. So, because she was pretty and charming and could appear quite helpless and forlorn at times, they gladly patronized her lumber yard and also Frank’s store, feeling that they should help a plucky little woman who apparently had only a shiftless husband to

5. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all

6. I had probably sat for hours on the couch, wondering what to do, being shiftless, when I heard the heavy footsteps of my mailman thump up my stairs

7. An honest, hard-working, but shiftless man plainly was John Field; and his wife, she too was brave to cook so many successive dinners in the recesses of that lofty stove; with round greasy face and bare breast, still thinking to improve her condition one day; with the never absent mop in one hand, and yet no effects of it visible anywhere