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单词 layabout
释义

layabout

noun

lay·​about ˈlā-ə-ˌbau̇t How to pronounce layabout (audio)
: a lazy shiftless person : idler

Synonyms

  • couch potato
  • deadbeat
  • do-nothing
  • drone
  • idler
  • lazybones
  • loafer
  • lotus-eater
  • slouch
  • slug
  • slugabed
  • sluggard
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Example Sentences

she regretted ever asking that layabout to be her roommate, as he created the mess of two people and refused to help with anything
Recent Examples on the Web The trick is to avoid becoming either a workaholic or a layabout. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2022 Benjamin was cast as Dr. Katz’s layabout son, and Silverman as his receptionist. New York Times, 25 May 2022 Melanie Lynskey plays the drug-delivering layabout Hannah who, after getting in trouble with the law, is hired to do tours at a Georgia historical siteas Lady Wadsworth, the matriarch of the manor who died suspiciously in 1875. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021 The relationships among the characters feel lived-in; the generational tension between a group of layabout teens, pulling inhumane pranks in the woods, and their pained parents is especially vivid. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021 But Yolanda is busy babying Amadeo, Angel’s 33-year-old layabout dad. Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021 Hulu’s show tapped in to a certain kind of layabout, day-drinking malaise that is currently missing from a lot of people’s summers. Angela Watercutter, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020 Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a Nigerian village with her layabout, alcoholic father and two brothers. Tsitsi Dangarembga, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020 Orwell thought of the poor as decent people, but he’d be baffled to observe today that the welfare state has created a class of layabouts who, liberated from economic anguish, shackle themselves to screens, drugs, alcohol. Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 June 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

layabout

noun

as in deadbeat
a lazy person she regretted ever asking that layabout to be her roommate, as he created the mess of two people and refused to help with anything

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • deadbeat
  • idler
  • loafer
  • lazybones
  • sluggard
  • slug
  • snail
  • slouch
  • bum
  • drone
  • slugabed
  • shirker
  • couch potato
  • delayer
  • good-for-nothing
  • dawdler
  • loiterer
  • lotus-eater
  • lingerer
  • straggler
  • laggard
  • goldbrick
  • slowpoke
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • do-nothing
  • creeper
  • slacker
  • procrastinator
  • crawler
  • ne'er-do-well
  • clock-watcher
  • putterer
  • loller
  • saunterer
  • malingerer
  • dallier
  • dropout
  • lounger
  • quitter

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • hustler
  • doer
  • achiever
  • comer
  • hummer
  • highflyer
  • go-getter
  • highflier
  • powerhouse
  • self-starter
  • live wire
  • go-ahead
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