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loafing

[ UK /lˈə‍ʊfɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. having no employment

How To Use loafing In A Sentence

  • Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
  • The adult tick does not feed and may live in and around corrals, barns and cattle loafing areas for a year or more waiting to mate.
  • You are loafing away your precious time!
  • Wouldn't you rather have her issue arrive in your mailbox as opposed to loafing around bodegas and drugstores for hours until you build up the courage to buy it?
  • Most of the sailors were loafing in the barroom or lounge, playing a measured game of cards or writing letters.
  • The rest of the afternoon I have been loafing, feeling sorry for myself and surfing and playing games.
  • John Davis coolly sat on a powder-keg from which the top had been shot off, and was so found by an officer, who hastily censured him for his loafing -- "bumming" during recess. The Lincoln Story Book
  • Hollander and German stragglers who were loafing round about, although he seemed to entertain an irradicable prejudice against the Dutch and My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
  • It's about standing around - not loafing but spending hour upon hour on one's feet.
  • There were thousands of gulls present along with geese, ducks, egrets, and crows all loafing or actively feeding on the airfield.
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