loafing

[ UK /lˈə‍ʊfɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. having no employment
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How To Use loafing In A Sentence

  • It's been a day for idleness, for loafing about, for lounging, dozing, snacking and dozing some more.
  • It is a place to escape to for days spent loafing in hammocks, meandering among the coconut palms in the garden or idling through pulp novels on the patio, all the time lulled by the pounding surf and the relentless whoosh of the trade winds.
  • There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
  • He is pragmatic about the idea of trendily shod herder kids loafing about the steppe.
  • They spend all day loafing around on street corners.
  • You are loafing through life, you lazy fellow!
  • There was a fairish crowd of Indians doing what Indians usually do-squatting and loafing, scratching and gossiping in groups, some of the bucks painting, the women cooking at the fires, the kids scampering. Isabelle
  • The kind of televisual treats previously only glimpsed by daytime TV viewers loafing around at home. The Guardian World News
  • They spend all day loafing around on street corners.
  • When loafing in Miami South Beach, I was transfixed by the neon-coloured art deco hotels on Ocean Drive and, each day, squeezed past laughing tourists taking photographs of one particular building.
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