work-shy in the PONS Dictionary

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These are not work-shy layabouts or trustafarians, either.
www.independent.co.uk
Prospective reformers' biggest headache is that this addiction to the welfare state extends well beyond the work-shy and benefits scroungers of tabloid lore.
www.telegraph.co.uk
He has recently been accused of being work-shy over the small number of royal duties he carried out last year and at the start of this year.
www.mirror.co.uk
It's fun, but the male cops are all lazy, work-shy and trying to impress, mostly unsuccessfully.
theconversation.com
This industrial action tended to refute claims that trades unions were work-shy and was therefore embarrassing to the government.
en.wikipedia.org
The people who are breeding en masse are the sub-culture, benefits cheats, criminals and work-shy.
www.dailysquib.co.uk
How did a nation of work-shy yokels with a troubling past come to hold the world's future in its hands?
www.telegraph.co.uk
He can not read and is work-shy.
en.wikipedia.org
Being a work-shy politician his immediate answer is to start delegating, and so much of the game involves recreating new people to your entourage.
metro.co.uk
Shiftless, work-shy, non-workers must get jealous, and predators who rise late must feel our ire.
www.jamaicaobserver.com

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