Adjective has 1 sense

• work-shy(s = adj.all) faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful - disinclined to work or exertion; "an indolent hanger-on"; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"