workshy in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for workshy in the English»Italian Dictionary

work-shy [Brit, Am ˈwərkˌʃaɪ] ADJ pej

work-shy

pigro, sfaticato, senza voglia di lavorare

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Prospective reformers' biggest headache is that this addiction to the welfare state extends well beyond the workshy and benefits scroungers of tabloid lore.

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Men of today are not workshy in the domestic sphere -- they just prefer a proper task to something piddling like loading the dishwasher.

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And does the farmer receive the gratitude of the workshy?

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People might think you're a workshy freeloader but don't let the squares grind you down.

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I hope she tears a strip off her silly husband for being such an eejit and allowing himself to be laughed at and accused of being workshy.

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It humanised the very poor and made it harder for viewers to caricature them as merely workshy or feckless.

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In fairness, there are some very hard workers at the council, but they are so massively outweighed by the workshy that they're fighting a losing battle.

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Dad was a workshy wastrel who did nothing but lose money playing poker.

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Workshy schoolchildren no longer rely on traditional excuses such as "the dog ate my homework", prefering more modern variations including "my computer crashed", according to a survey.

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Many of them are not workshy -- they are being entirely rational, if short-sighted.

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