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Originally Posted by Fifth Element
It's "cheap" because it may indicate the author can't come up with a good "normal" name, and therefore resorts to the hip trend of using an adjective instead.
It's "irritating" because it's not a noun, it's an adjective. The shifted what? Or (in this case) it could be a verb. They shifted what? At any rate, it's not a noun.
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Actually, it's perfectly valid to use a verb as a noun -- that's called a gerund.
In this case, it's not "The shifted what," but rather, "Those who have been shifted." It's used in the same context as "the injured."