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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".

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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.

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

This is a grim continuum on which to exist, skating between the poles of high-achieving hustler and dissolute layabout.

Dino is an Italian layabout who dawdles through life on a steady cash drip from his wealthy mother.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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