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What does workshy mean?

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Adjective
  1. (Britain) Disinclined to work; lazy.
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Workshy benefits claimants should stop watching daytime television and get a job.
The belief here is that, unlike with other cuts, no pragmatic justification is required: a hard-grafting majority are angry with a workshy minority, and want retrenchment on principle.
Carlyle, who thought man should content himself with being the worthy follower of worthy superiors, would no doubt have approved. Go with the flowNot that Carlyle was workshy.
The Scottish National Party and the Greens would be milder still. Labour has so far said less, for fear of a return to Thatcher-era unelectability, when the party was painted as being on the side of the workshy.
Anon NOT everyone being summoned to Atos in Cadogan Street, Glasgow, is a workshy freeloader, as Del the cabbie says.
For a workshy fop who is being forced out of his comfort zone, this can come as something of a shock to the system.

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