11. We used to get mad at white folks for calling us lazy and shiftless . 12. "It isn't that teachers were being lazy and shiftless before. 13. He was also known as a " wandering " laborer, shiftless and uneducated. 14. America is moving shiftless into the future. 15. EMC planned to use regenerative breaking and is coupled to an automatic shiftless button transmission. 16. He's called it shiftless , an embarrassment to the whole cancer community ." 17. Sure, Sonny is shiftless , loutish, self-absorbed and given to fits of temper. 18. Grant's interest stemmed from the way he related to the book's shiftless Londoner. 19. His father's disdain spread, and the entire community began to reject him as shiftless . 20. More recent scholarship on Thomas Lincoln has revised previous characterizations of him as a " shiftless drifter ".