How To Use Work-shy In A Sentence
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No wonder they're the favourite injury of the work-shy or the insurance-fraudster.
Times, Sunday Times
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Factory workers are depicted as work-shy and devious, company directors as unscrupulous.
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There are so many subliminal motivational messages around this building, it's all I can do to remain disinterested and work-shy.
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He was trying to help some of his female German fellow workers who were being harassed and baited with cries of ‘work-shy Turks’.
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Tesco has made a positive and brave step to kick work-shy skivers out of bed.
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So Micky, his equally work-shy best mate from a house clearance company, has the master plan of reinventing him as a gigolo.
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I am not work-shy and donate some of my time to charity on a voluntary basis.
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They will go way beyond targeting the work-shy.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Many people tend to think of them as alcoholics, as work-shy individuals,’ Bogans said.
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Factory workers are depicted as work-shy and devious, company directors as unscrupulous.
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Tougher financial sanctions would make work-shy whingers show a bit more responsibility.
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Public servants are not work-shy scroungers.
Times, Sunday Times
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the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
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With two films to his name, a third in the can and a fourth in pre-production, the prolific 28-year-old has already surpassed the work-shy Malick's 30-year tally.
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The cheese-eating, work-shy surrender monkeys.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past ten years a chasm has opened up between the workaholics and the quaintly named 'work-shy'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man must be a workaholic; people like him are potentially very depressing to work-shy folks like me.
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Yet royal sources suggested complaints about the 'work-shy' prince will quickly prove misplaced.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am not work-shy and donate some of my time to charity on a voluntary basis.
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I didn't really need one, I just guessed there'd be mirrors in the toilet area, and I wanted to check my appearance, to see if I really did look work-shy and/or simple.
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He quickly dismisses any notion that he's turned into a work-shy recluse.
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It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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Smith was also somewhat work-shy, a factor absent in most successful revolutionaries.
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If someone has successfully completed an epic, exhausting, hazardous journey to get here, why assume that they will become lazy, work-shy good-for-nothings when they arrive?
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If someone has successfully completed an epic, exhausting, hazardous journey to get here, why assume that they will become lazy, work-shy good-for-nothings when they arrive?
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These journeys would take great courage and stamina - a fact that is hard to square with the common perception of immigrants as work-shy spongers.
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Nor do things look much better for work-shy Scots of the future.
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What a pity thousands of work-shy layabouts don't think the same way.
The Sun
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As a result, British films and TV programmes are littered with images of the archetypal work-shy idler.
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What is more surprising is that hard-working people so often shrug their shoulders and accept that the work-shy are entitled to what they can get off the state.
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I'm not lazy or work-shy and would love to be able to work and not deal with this pain.
The Sun
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As a result, British films and TV programmes are littered with images of the archetypal work-shy idler.
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In his measures against the work-shy and corrupt, he favoured vigorous penalties more than an improvement of the situations which gave rise to their vices.
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Yes, he's a great campaigner but in office would prove himself incompetent, work-shy and dim.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sykes was uppity, cunning and work-shy, while Hattie - magnificent in stature - was timid and trusting by nature, and easily suckered into her brother's misbegotten schemes.
