And to avoid that horror of the real Yankee's dreams, "shiftlessness," she was to take up a small select school for employment. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
"Mental shiftlessness" is the cause of many a failure. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
For one thing, they did not have a monopoly on shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
This "roving disposition" cannot fairly be charged to shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Her domineering nature was the diametric opposite of Nicholas's shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Would-Be Masters] Reference
Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gatsby] Reference
Instead, she could not help laughing at the tales of his masculine shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
Jollity, shiftlessness, and lack of purpose in one man have given to the world a family of. From Wordnik.com. [Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity] Reference
Faculty is the greatest virtue, and shiftlessness the greatest vice, of Yankee man and woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
In some men it results in paralysis of the energies, changing the character into shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
"A pretty affair," said Mrs. Lively, "to payout five dollars just for somebody's shiftlessness!". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Dirk was a great broad-shouldered, slouching fellow, with a general air of shiftlessness about him. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
The more we know of their mode of life, the more are we inclined to marvel at its utter shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
Such utter shiftlessness as everything about the cluster of tumble-downs betokened he had never imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
For it is nothing but heedlessness, and shiftlessness that prevents Us from making Salt enough for a Supply. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 August 1777] Reference
True, it would be much lonelier, but that was far more endurable than the sight of such shiftlessness and ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
It not only runs the continual risk of encouraging shiftlessness and dependence, but it does not go to the root of the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
I alternated between passive submission to island laziness, shiftlessness, slovenliness, dirt, and active assertion of Ohio vim. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Under the first head come drink, immorality, laziness, shiftlessness and inefficiency, crime and dishonesty, a roving disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
It was impossible to be unconscious of the difference between the industry in one place, and the utter shiftlessness in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands] Reference
Hiram saw that the fences were in bad repair and that the back of the premises gave every indication of neglect and shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
I believe this had to be post-partum depression, aggravated by a husband who was later banished from the Colony for his own shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Mad As Ophelia] Reference
Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
I think she suffers from her husband's shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
The same evidence of shiftlessness could be seen on every hand. From Wordnik.com. [Crooked Trails and Straight] Reference
Mrs. Lander's tone, in provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference
The incident shows, as well as anything, the barrenness and shiftlessness of the region. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
Everywhere was an unlovely disorder and confusion, which spoke of shiftlessness and lack of care. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
From it he had brought home a broken constitution, a maimed body and confirmed habits of shiftlessness and drunkenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
He recognized all her admirable qualities, which filled in the shortcomings of his shiftlessness with admirable exactitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
"I wonder," he muttered, "what them no 'count half-livers o' town folks hev hed the shiftlessness ter let ketch afire thar!". From Wordnik.com. ['way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895] Reference
Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado. From Wordnik.com. [The Souls of Black Folk] Reference
The eating-house, the rooms and hallways, were all of that desolate shabbiness which comes from shiftlessness joined with poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference
Wain lived in an old plantation house, somewhat dilapidated, and surrounded by an air of neglect and shiftlessness, but still preserving. From Wordnik.com. [The House Behind the Cedars] Reference
He had always known that Manley had an aversion to laboring with his hands, but he was unprepared for such an exhibition of shiftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Land] Reference
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