layabout
4
7.6
- noun
- /ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/
- Offensive
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vago
- He's just a layabout who spends all day watching TV instead of looking for a job.
The Hollywood Farm W Association is famously a group of drunken, corrupt, you know, layabouts who can easily be bought.
- The Hollywood Farm W Association is famously a group of drunken, corrupt, you know, layabouts who can easily be bought.
Examples
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She called him a layabout for never helping out around the house.
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The boss doesn't tolerate any layabouts in the office who refuse to contribute.
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- Get up, layabouts, breakfast is ready.
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We'll have no layabouts on my watch...
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And you are a good-for-nothing layabout.
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We get all the Lords and Ladies and layabouts down here.
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Tell your crew of illiterate layabouts to hurry up!
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And of course there were the layabouts at the end of Farriers' Lane.
Fiction book (1993) -
All right, you fetid layabouts.
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I don't like shiftless layabouts.
Synonyms
142
7.2
A lazy person who others dislike for not working
33
4.6
A person who avoids work and often does very little
9
7.0
A person who avoids work and makes little effort
5
5.8
A person who avoids work and does very little
2
7.0
A person who avoids work and does very little
2
8.6
A person who avoids work and wastes time
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9.9
A person who often avoids work and is lazy
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7.2
A person who avoids work and prefers to rest
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9.9
A person who avoids work and does very little
1
5.8
A person who often rests and does very little
1
9.6
A person who avoids work by pretending to be busy
A lazy person who avoids work, often a monk living in an abbey
A person who is lazy and avoids work
Antonyms
How Lazy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Layabout comes from the simple words lay and about, so picture someone who 'lies around' doing nothing. That's why a layabout means a person who avoids work and is lazy.