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!", search around on your own initiative for a theme worth presenting to the attention of a throng of widely assorted listeners -- for a "story" that ought to appeal to. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
It just shiftlessly ambles forward buoyed by the assumption everyone will stop to watch a catfight, especially one involving Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter. From Wordnik.com. [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference
A general sort of way, and some of my people were put in charge of these stars, a while back: but they appear to have run the constellation rather shiftlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
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