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How to sign: disinclined to work or exertion
"faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy";
Similiar / Same: faineant, indolent, slothful, work-shy, lazy
How to sign: producing no result or effect
"a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt";
Similiar / Same: futile, unavailing, ineffectual
