He was also known as a "wandering" laborer, shiftless and uneducated. Her sister criticises her decision, calling him a "lazy and shiftless" boor. Most Dogpatchers were shiftless and ignorant; the remainder were scoundrels and thieves. They're a shiftless group of hobos. Ranjit is a shiftless loafer and pickpocket working for a gang. She is tired of Tippy's shiftless, drunken ways and Lloyd's domineering rule of the family. Within the army the remaining substitutes were mostly unpatriotic, shiftless and held in contempt. The series stars Scott Bakula as Barnett M. "Bud" Lutz, Jr., a shiftless ambulance-chasing lawyer. EMC planned to use regenerative breaking coupled to an automatic shiftless button transmission. They were also noted for their hard-working women compared to shiftless men. Likes to drink and party, a shiftless individual. It took him seven years to finish college however, because "I have always been shiftless".