layabout
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To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
At the center of this story is a gainfully employed layabout, an unnamed, possibly mythical “friend of a friend.”
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
Katie sees Rachel as little more than a useless layabout waiting to claim the apartment, even though Rachel had been the live-in caregiver before things turned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
Sir Gawain is a bit of a cad when we first meet him, a drunken layabout who’d rather woo than fight.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The supervisor is sitting extremely comfortably with his legs crossed and his arm hanging over the backrest here like some layabout.
From The Trial by David Wyllie
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