What's the difference between shiftless and untrustworthy?
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.
Untrustworthy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some pro-government factions in Bahrain have denounced the US as an untrustworthy ally.
(2) The difference is minor, but in the highly charged reaction to MtGox's closure, it is likely to be seized upon as evidence of untrustworthiness on the company's part.
(3) Poll gives Brexit campaign lead of three percentage points Read more Other leading members of the leave campaign have more directly impugned the prime minister’s character, painting him as untrustworthy and damaged as a leader.
(4) For many it is an important source of income because they are unable to get good jobs thanks to their status as untrustworthy and counter-revolutionary citizens.
(5) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
(6) And there’s fact-checking of the news in that morning’s issue of Granma – the eminently untrustworthy state newspaper – provided by a man whose sister lives in Miami or a woman who works in a hotel, and watches CNN during slow hours with the German tourist who doesn’t like sightseeing.
(7) The "recovered" group was significantly higher on the ABS Economic Activity domain and significantly lower in the Violent & Destructive, Antisocial, Rebelliousness, Untrustworthiness, Stereotyped Behavior & Odd Mannerisms, and Psychological Disturbance behavior domains.
(8) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
(9) Hugh Mackay described the net effect of Shorten’s manner, personality, and history as creating an impression of “perhaps weakness, perhaps untrustworthiness, perhaps evasiveness”.
(10) In the eyes of the ideologues, any economic warning is fake news, as untrustworthy as an expert opinion.
(11) The citation's assertion that Obama's diplomacy reflects "values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population" riled conservatives who view the US president's role as to stand up to hostile and untrustworthy foreigners.
(12) Among them are the Russian nationalism, the untrustworthiness, the belief in a zero-sum international game, the fear, the fundamental absence of shared values with the west, the importance of the nuclear standoff, and the readiness to play adversaries off against one another.
(13) The party’s leaders, Thompson said, were despotic and untrustworthy, and would sweep away long-cherished political freedoms if they ever achieved power.
(14) Gingrich, who goes in to next week's Florida primary bolstered by his surprise victory in the South Carolina vote on Saturday, at times struggled to fend off Romney's barrage of accusations, which painted him as serially dishonest, untrustworthy and unfit to be president.
(15) Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them.
(16) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(17) Politicians are seen as untrustworthy and hypocritical.
(18) The German chancellor is understood to have echoed the concerns of senior figures in her Christian Democratic Union party, such as the former president of the EU parliament Hans Gert Poettering, that Cameron's behaviour had been untrustworthy.
(19) It's also a bit conspicuous that the very few Somali speaking characters (mostly played by Brits of west African and Caribbean descent) don't do anything except scheme, gloat, menace and be untrustworthy.
(20) It’s a betrayal and frankly I think it makes him a really untrustworthy politician.” Some critics say the ban was a calculated move by the governor to attract national conservatives.