work-shyadjective
uk/ˈwɜːk.ʃaɪ/us/ˈwɝːk.ʃaɪ/UK disapprovingdisliking work and trying to avoid it when possible:
Most of the unemployed are not work-shy and genuinely do want jobs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Laziness and lazy people
- bludger
- bone idle idiom
- bum around
- CBA
- clock-watching
- deadbeat
- doss
- idle
- inertia
- layabout
- lazy
- lazybones
- lie down on the job idiom
- loafer
- shirker
- skiver
- slacker
- slackness
- slob
- slug
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