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layabout

[ UK /lˈe‍ɪɐbˌa‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. person who does no work
    a lazy bum

How To Use layabout In A Sentence

  • Jake changes overnight from drippy layabout to high roller.
  • Despite the best efforts of the unwashed layabouts who call themselves the anti-capitalist movement, market forces remain the future of our society.
  • What a pity thousands of work-shy layabouts don't think the same way. The Sun
  • National members talk about layabouts and bludgers.
  • ‘I wasn't looked upon as being a layabout or a waster,’ he said.
  • Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
  • I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and layabout!
  • On the down side I have known friends be zombified layabouts doing absolutely nothing for days on end and really being the most boring people because they are smoking constantly.
  • Leader of the esthete Florentine layabouts was Seymour Kirkup, a Brit painter with it was said too much money and not enough talent. American Connections
  • Hamer, you're aham a bag-carrier not a layabout like me. Guido's Other Interview
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