Meanings of work-shy in English

That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.

For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.

He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.

And no one could ever call him work-shy.

What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?

The work-shy millennials versus the hard-grafting, post-war babies.

The lazy bunch of pampered work-shy English bastards.'

There are no work-shy builders in the capital, in fact we need more sites to satisfy demand.

Never work-shy, her advice to young people is to choose an area you love and get stuck in.

Perhaps the other MBM readers are work-shy n'er do wells oblivious to the equipment involved in cleaning windows?

That MBV are still capable of this much speed and passion belies their reputation as diffident and work-shy.

Making things even more precarious for palace publicity is that this has reawakened the issue of Kate's work-shy reputation.

Public reaction to them was characteristically ambiguous, swinging between descriptions of them as scruffy, work-shy troublemakers and scruffy, free-spirit idealists.

It was in vain that Kirk touched on the work-shy father, dwelt feelingly on the young gentleman who travelled in hats.

To be stripped of what is rightfully mine by a jealous, work-shy son cannot be the justice you seek for everyone.

She supported a work-shy father, and was engaged to be married to a young gentleman who travelled for a hat firm.