shiftlessness 

  1. 名詞
不可數名詞: 不求上進
不思進取
無志氣, 得過且過
偷懶, 懶惰
過一天算一天

    同義字詞
idleness,indolence,inertia,laziness,sloth

例句

  1. That is shiftlessness .
  2. It is a usual belief with us that this type of communism leads to shiftlessness .
  3. In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside.
  4. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a grovelling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry.
  5. many of the children came from homes where the houses were decent, where the wages were good, and where, apparently, the state of the children was not due to any real defect in the conditions under which they were living but simply to the heedlessness, the shiftlessness , the carelessness and the ignorance of the mothers.