Example Sentences

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The characters in this show are always moving up and down the coast, restlessly, shiftlessly, searchingly—and, in what is a very American quirk, they are always doing so in a car.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2015

I smoothed his headaches just as well, and listened to his music just as well, so he shiftlessly took it for granted that I loved him just as well.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Instead of shiftlessly tossing the whole burden of responsibility for choice of topics to a hard driven editor, and whining, "Please give me an idea!"

From If You Don't Write Fiction by Cushing, Charles Phelps

More frequently the temptation is to take an easy kind of work, rather than harder work; or to do our work shiftlessly rather than thoroughly.

From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt