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layabout

[ UK /lˈe‍ɪɐbˌa‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. person who does no work
    a lazy bum

How To Use layabout In A Sentence

  • Tough new sanctions on cheats and layabouts will also help limit fraud. The Sun
  • If he has any brains at all, he'll make a speech this week telling these ermined layabouts to go climb a tree.
  • Her boyfriend is a good - for - nothing layabout.
  • And finally, do you consider animals to be lazy layabouts scrounging off our hard-earned wages all the time?
  • She said: ‘Homeless people are not all a bunch of layabouts.’
  • But when members talk about layabouts, bludgers, and lazy folk, they should look at their own number.
  • Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through.
  • To others, however, ‘student’ can suggest smelly, dirty, noisy layabouts who, for whatever reason, are intent on doing as little as possible with their time at university.
  • Layabout playboy by day, string of bank robbery scheme crimebuster dressed in black by night. Archive 2007-04-01
  • She said: ‘People are just jumping to conclusions and saying they're all layabouts.’
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