fainéant

Example Sentences

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You call me trifler, fainéant, And bid me give my life an aim!—

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Day, Francis

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

The Invisible King is not, after all, a roi fainéant.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William

Bibulus, a colleague of Julius Cæsar; a mere cipher, a fainéant.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a fainéant government is not the worst government that England can have.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony