What's the difference between shiftless and shirtless?
Shiftless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
Example Sentences:
(1) You had those riots in 2011 … If riots started again in Leeds and bits of my constituency – it’s like a tinderbox.” It’s a shiftless and opportunistic argument that makes no use of the plentiful analysis and research that has gone into those riots – none of which even name-checked the EU or freedom of movement – preferring to dangle the violence as a decontextualised spectre, reminding us that it’s a dark and dangerous world out there, the people are angry and their rage must be assuaged.
(2) Now, as Romney admits, the wealthy deem virtually half the voting public as irredeemably shiftless moochers.
(3) Behind the high steel fences of the Manus Island detention centre, his health is often poor, his moods swing dramatically, from a wild, garrulous mania to black and shiftless depression.
(4) The modern characterisation of this class is that its members are insecure and shiftless – lacking either the job security and collectivism of the old working class, or the capital of the traditional middle class.
Shirtless
Definition:
(a.) Not having or wearing a shirt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first half had been a largely featureless affair, notable only for the two shirtless cheerleaders among Newcastle’s support giving in to the cold and getting dressed after 15 minutes, and the quality of Shaqiri’s crosses into Newcastle’s penalty area.
(2) Yet grisly pictures on Xinhua's website show a shirtless man covered in purple splotches lying on a hospital bed, his left arm awkwardly splayed across his chest.
(3) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
(4) If I said to you I didn't want to see him shirtlessly accomplishing his heroic twelve labors I'd be a liar.
(5) Chanel’s boyfriend Chad (Glen Powell, looking about 10 years too old to play college) is the only one who can match Chanel in his viciousness (and looks mighty fine in his many shirtless scenes).
(6) His tiger-stalking and shirtless fly-fishing image, coupled with an ability to deliver increased standards of living brought him, until as recently as 2010, approval ratings of around 80%.
(7) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
(8) The police know this and the wood passes through,” admits Felipe Portocarrero, a powerfully built timber merchant sitting shirtless on a deckchair at a sawmill on the Yavari river, which marks the border between Peru and Brazil.
(9) Tyson Fury has no excuse | John Amaechi Read more At the eye of the well-lubricated storm is Tyson Fury , shirtless and ruddy-faced and draped in an Irish flag.
(10) Putin, who is fiercely secretive about his private life, has built an image of a robust, active leader through shirtless photo-ops and high-octane stunts.
(11) By dawn, marines were storming apartment 401 to pick up a bleary-eyed and shirtless Chapo before he had time to react.
(12) A shirtless addict who had just pissed into a pail in the corner helped me.
(13) Handler’s outrage at Instagram over a funny picture mocking Vladimir Putin’s infamous shirtless-on-horse shot , for example, was focused on a double standard that assumes breasts’ innocuousness: “If a man posts a photo of his nipples, it’s ok, but not a woman?
(14) On a stifling day you'll find shirtless men from the neighbourhood drinking leisurely after work.
(15) In 2010, the university sued General Motors for grafting the scientist's head onto the body of a well-toned, shirtless man in an ad in People magazine.
(16) The crowd was markedly diverse, ranging from visibly leftwing activists to shirtless men with chest tattoos.
(17) Undated photos provided by police showed a shirtless, tattooed Barnes brandishing two weapons, a large rifle and a smaller firearm with a large clip.
(18) There is the Putin factor: we don’t want to do anything to encourage more shirtless swaggering from the Russian leader, not in the Middle East, not anywhere.” The book also claims Johnson “wanted to punch” his Brexit ally Michael Gove after the former justice secretary announced his own bid to become prime minister on the morning of a speech in which Johnson was to announce his own candidacy, a move that ended up destroying both men’s chances and paving the way for Theresa May to enter No 10.
(19) In the article inside, the magazine, which has generally portrayed Putin in a positive light and once showed him shirtless on the cover, describes Navalny favourably, noting the irregularities that marred his trial and the view that the charges were fabricated.
(20) He was sweet and excessively shirtless as the token hunk in Tamara Drewe but he has also been psychotic in the grisly No One Lives and a brace of Fast & Furious films (six and seven, if you’re wondering).