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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

What’s missing is a palpable grit, particularly in Whitted’s performance, that would help us to a belief in Hal’s head-spinning pivot from idler and carouser to beloved hero of the realm.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2019

Behind it all is John D. Rockefeller Jr. — or Junior, as he was known — a man with a feisty wife and few obvious passions beyond the wish to avoid seeming like an idler.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2013

I am prejudiced, for I have always been an idler.

From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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

There are few schools for idlers or households for the lazy.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

Maybe he felt a little guilty about Pooky’s father, I don’t know, but he seemed to tolerate Pooky more than he did other complainers and idlers.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam