ADJECTIVE
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disinclined to work or exertion
faineant kings under whose rule the country languished
slothful employees
too lazy to wash the dishes
shiftless idle youth
an indolent hanger-on
the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
How To Use work-shy In A Sentence
- No wonder they're the favourite injury of the work-shy or the insurance-fraudster. Times, Sunday Times
- Factory workers are depicted as work-shy and devious, company directors as unscrupulous.
- There are so many subliminal motivational messages around this building, it's all I can do to remain disinterested and work-shy.
- He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’.
- Tesco has made a positive and brave step to kick work-shy skivers out of bed.
- So Micky, his equally work-shy best mate from a house clearance company, has the master plan of reinventing him as a gigolo.
- I am not work-shy and donate some of my time to charity on a voluntary basis.
- They will go way beyond targeting the work-shy. Times, Sunday Times
- ‘Many people tend to think of them as alcoholics, as work-shy individuals,’ Bogans said.
- Factory workers are depicted as work-shy and devious, company directors as unscrupulous.
