| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity: bum1, drone1, fainéant, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, wastrel. Informal : do-little, do-nothing, lazybones, slug2. Slang : slouch. See INDUSTRIOUS. | | ADJECTIVE: | Resistant to exertion and activity: fainéant, idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggish. Informal : do-nothing. Idioms: bone lazy. See ACTION, INDUSTRIOUS.
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