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Diversions visually suppressed shiftlessness or illicitness, or anything a bouncer had been instructed to keep out of a club.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

If you were satisfied with taking on all duties, and your hubby’s shiftlessness, you wouldn’t have written in.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023

Last Man on Earth works subtly and seamlessly as a critique of a certain kind of contemporary shiftlessness.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2015

Speaking to a small group of students and instructors at Renton Technical College, Biden acknowledged “the middle class is hurting,” but said he gets angry at those who accuse out-of-work people of shiftlessness.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2014

She saw such behavior as a troubling sign of the rising shiftlessness of the age.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson