idler

There is an almost continuous succession of scenes in which Nicholson sketches this idler, lover, jokester, manipulator, con man, gambler, loner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Batman co-creator Bob Kane wrote in his 1998 autobiography “Batman and Me”: “The rich foppish Don Diego, Zorro’s alter ego, inspired Bruce Wayne’s facade of being a bored, wealthy idler and playboy.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020

Oh, that would be the uncle who willed his farm and estate to Onegin, a charming idler.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

The album title, she said, refers to the role of the idler wheel in an engine, which does not propel directly but is connected to everything.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2012

"Rich or poor, strong or weak, the idler is a knave."

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

In a rare access of annoyance, he writes that journalists have made a habit of coming to Grouse County “trolling for right-wing idlers in coffee shops and country bars.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

During a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as "among the worst idlers in the world".

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2022

Callers have denounced them as idlers and traitors, or as taking sides in the conflict.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

This is something I have thought about more and more in recent years, and it is why I have always preferred doers to idlers, whiners and excuse-makers.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

So they took to keeping her below decks when they passed a lockkeeper’s cottage or a canal basin, or anywhere there were likely to be idlers hanging about.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman