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layabout::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
| Type of | nonworker |
| Has types | couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, no-account, poke, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, clock watcher, woolgatherer |
Examples of layabout
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Let's pair him with X, who did such a good job mentoring the last layabout kid.
From the theatlantic.com
But O'Reilly told the Fox audience that Obama kowtowed to the layabout class.
From the latimes.com
Among the settlers who lived in their shadow was the hapless layabout Rip Van Winkle.
From the time.com
What extra living costs does this bone-idle layabout incur because of these headaches?
From the express.co.uk
They watched her needle her layabout son, Michael, into joining the insurance business.
From the washingtonpost.com
She's hopeless at all these tasks, and a potty-mouthed layabout besides.
From the time.com
Dex is a brilliant, self-indulgent layabout who easily rationalizes his lack of ambition.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The death of the lovable layabout also earned him the Best Exit gong.
From the people.co.uk
Because everyone who takes time off sick is a layabout scrounger, and on the fiddle, right?
From the independent.co.uk
- Idler: person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
- One might use layabout as a synonym for "slacker," as opposed to "idler," except that the term was re-appropriated by Paul Morand (author of the never-completed manual "For the Use of the New Idle"), who liked to boast that he belonged to "the great secret society of layabouts enjoying the scorn ...
