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

Batman co-creator Bob Kane wrote in his 1998 autobiography “Batman and Me”: “The rich foppish Don Diego, Zorro’s alter ego, inspired Bruce Wayne’s facade of being a bored, wealthy idler and playboy.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

The album title, she said, refers to the role of the idler wheel in an engine, which does not propel directly but is connected to everything.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2012

He is a restless, unmanageable idler and scamp, say his enemies—unstable as water, he shall not excel.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2018

Contrary to predictions by slavery’s defenders, the liberated slaves did not become idlers, but divided their time between continued plantation work and cultivating individual plots the army assigned them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

So they took to keeping her below decks when they passed a lockkeeper’s cottage or a canal basin, or anywhere there were likely to be idlers hanging about.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman