| Years of shiftlessness and bad behavior can be squandered by a single misstep. |
| Stories were told of her dirt and shiftlessness, of the hens which roosted in her kitchen. |
| There have been suicides passed off as accidents and shiftlessness indulgently termed wanderlust. |
| So our nation, through shiftlessness and lack of interest, is losing the war on cancer. |
| She later fears John, her son, will inherit the shiftlessness of the now absent Mike. |
| When he was still in his 20s, a steady descent into corpulence, shiftlessness and defensive irony began. |
