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词汇 layabout
释义 layabout
noun[ C ]
 informaluk /ˈleɪ.əˌbaʊt/ us /ˈleɪ.əˌbaʊt/
a person who is unwilling to work游手好闲的人
Synonyms
bum(PERSON)USinformal
loafer(LAZY PERSON)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laziness and lazy people
bludger
bone idleidiom
bum around
CBA
clock-watcher
deadbeat
indolent
indolently
lazily
laziness
lazy
lie
shirker
skiver
slacker
slackness
slob
unambitious
vegetable
work-shy

Examples of layabout


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They, too, have their public resorts, promenades for layabouts to walk in, resorts that bear some relation to ours, but which only go to show the futility of the endeavour.
Those two months are the beginning of the layabout life which no teacher and no pupil wants.
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These people, categorised as layabouts, should have to report every morning to the local authority for community work before being entitled to benefit.
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When it suits another, they are layabouts, strike-bound and always causing trouble.
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The prejudice is that if someone is unemployed he is a scrounger and a layabout.
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I suspect that he thinks that there is a lot of malingering, and there are many layabouts, behind the figures on absenteeism and ill health.
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These are not layabouts; they are people waiting for the opportunity which we have to offer them.
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I do not believe that they are idle layabouts.
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He has criticised their sickness rates, wastage rates and clear-up rates, and has generally presented the police force as a bunch of lazy, ill layabouts.
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First, those on invalidity benefit are not layabouts.
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Some of my constituents have accused me of introducing a layabout's charter.
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We are not all layabouts who just like living off the state.
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Constituents write to me and say that layabouts in their street laugh at them for going to work.
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Let us face it; there are a few layabouts who do not want to work, but there are a very few.
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The taxpayers are sick and tired of financing these layabouts.
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