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Work-shy   /wərk-ʃaɪ/   Listen
Work-shy

adjective
1.
Disinclined to work or exertion.  Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful.  "An indolent hanger-on" , "Too lazy to wash the dishes" , "Shiftless idle youth" , "Slothful employees" , "The unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"






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"Work-shy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the arrival of Miss Hilda Vince at the studio. There was no harm in Miss Vince. Her morals were irreproachable. She supported a work-shy father, and was engaged to be married to a young gentleman who travelled for a hat firm. But she was of a chatty disposition and no respecter of persons. She had posed frequently for Kirk in his bachelor days, and was accustomed to call him by his first name—a fact which ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse



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