Meanings of shiftless fellow in English

I suppose he is still the same dear, stupid, shiftless fellow?

He was a shiftless fellow, never succeeding at anything, who could neither read nor write.

I do wish that shiftless fellow would come home.

His hopes of Jude had long ago sunk into a contemptuous understanding of the shiftless fellow.

Tom Sentner was a lazy, shiftless fellow.

Sam was a lazy, shiftless fellow, deserving all the hard things that came to be said of him.

The place was formerly occupied by a shiftless fellow, a tailor; and the court, now a paradise, had been a rubbish heap.

The school-master could sing a good song, and, although an idle, shiftless fellow, got more invitations to supper than any other man in the settlement.

You are not an ignorant, shiftless fellow, but a man of more than ordinary intelligence among your people, and one who ought to know better.

Angwin was a shiftless fellow, gentle and meek, who was wont to bewail his ill-luck; here was another slice of it for him, poor man!

Tungnāluke was one of those slow-of-comprehension, good-natured, shiftless fellows, that the men of the world would consider as not being very bright.