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[ US /ˈɫoʊfɝ/ ]
[ UK /lˈə‍ʊfɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. person who does no work
    a lazy bum

How To Use loafer In A Sentence

  • A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
  • Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
  • I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
  • (I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.) Retching With the Stars
  • He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
  • The customer, a middle-aged woman in jeans, blazer, conservative loafers, slunk away apologetically.
  • Her sweater was faded, with pulls in the yarn, her slacks were baggy at the knees, and her loafers were runover. DOLL'S EYES
  • Do I need to buy those patent leather loafers or a pair of velvet bedroom slippers?
  • Soon we were above ground in a silvery twelve-seater custom van, my seatmate fiddling with a loaded ashtray, fine gray dust sprinkling his shiny black tasseled loafers.
  • It's definitely acceptable to wear loafers without socks when wearing khakis.
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