bone-idle vs shiftless

bone-idle

adj
  • Utterly lazy. 

shiftless

adj
  • Lazy, unmotivated. 

  • Untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job. 

  • Destitute of shifts or expedients; lacking proper means. 

How often have the words bone-idle and shiftless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )