layabout

Example Sentences

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These layabouts “left their drinks everywhere,” ruining his parents’ wood furniture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Sir Rod told Walker he had "propelled the careers of a bunch of unknown layabouts to the top of the charts, and overnight fame and everything that goes with it".

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2024

She has dealt with her share of layabouts, deadbeats and heartbreakers.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

Tenure “reformers” typically describe their goals as depriving undeserving layabouts of an unwarranted privilege.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023

“Why should decent-minded citizens like layabouts who pay nothing to the state and flout every planning regulation in the book?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell