work-shy

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(BrE, disapproving) unwilling to work SYNLAZY

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

work-shyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus work-shyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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