fainéant

Example Sentences

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Then Aunt Ju took her seat, and was able for the next hour and a half to occupy her arm-chair with gratifying fainéant dignity.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

The best answer can be found in the story of the Colony, for the General Assembly, at all events, has never been a fainéant ruler.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

Solmes, the fainéant of Steinkirk, was left dead on the field.

From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

Even after Tullia was dead the Republic had come again for him, and something might be done to stir up these fainéant nobles!

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

How many years has he been a roi fainéant?

From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by De Mille, James