layabout's Usage Examples:

He has been portrayed as a well loved layabout and many of his storylines centred on his marriage to Hilda Ogden (Jean.

The screenplay concerns an unemployed layabout who shocks his family and friends by joining the police force.

Archie was first described as a layabout but eventually turned into a loveable and caring individual.

an "intelligent and good-natured guy", though Stevenson said he is a "layabout" who will not do anything that "interferes with having a good time".

Drumm alienated Mary years earlier, and she married a lazy, callow, layabout who represents everything Drumm dislikes in lower-class Irish culture.

She also starred as the mother of layabout Paul Calf (Steve Coogan) in The Paul ' Pauline Calf's Video Diaries, and.

outset) and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment 'freelance layabout' with a doctoral degree.

broadcast between 1972 and 1975, involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site.

Alfred Maurstad in particular was praised for his role as the ruthless layabout Fændrik.

the image of Denis portrayed in the letters – a gin-soaked half-witted layabout, whose sole activity was to try to escape the wrath of "the Boss" – was.

Rita's husband Mike Rawlins (Anthony Booth) is a socialist layabout from Liverpool who frequently locks horns with Garnett.

Rod is a greasy layabout, but underneath his scruffy appearance lies a kind-hearted, genuine guy.

fortune et l’homme qui l’attend dans son lit (The fortune-seeker and the layabout, VII.

publisher (The One Legged Cow Press), a freelance journalist, and a lifelong layabout.

has lost much of her ambition as a principled young woman and is now a layabout and stoner.

three episodes as Rita together with her son Michael, but although her layabout husband Mike was talked about, he was never seen.

two wives and two suspicious police officers, with help from his lazy layabout neighbour upstairs in Wimbledon.

Dad's Army (1968–1977); he made several monologues in the person of a layabout husband, who wryly takes part in the Home Guard.

love of Ted's life is a woman named Doris Lee, who often chastises her layabout playboy boyfriend for his pretended laziness and hypochondria, unaware.

Synonyms:

loafer; shirker; nonworker; good-for-nothing; poke; drone; bum; sluggard; whittler; lagger; dawdler; laggard; dilly-dallier; goof-off; no-account; trailer; lie-abed; spiv; dallier; clock watcher; slug; slugabed; do-nothing; lounger; idler; slacker; dillydallier; loon; daydreamer; woolgatherer; goldbrick; good-for-naught; couch potato; trifler; mope; lazybones; sunbather; ne"er-do-well;

Antonyms:

work; responsible; valuable; stand still; worker;