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Definition of layabout in English: layaboutnoun ˈleɪəbaʊtˈleɪəˌbaʊt British derogatory A person who habitually does little or no work. 〈贬〉懒人 ‘How'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’ Example sentencesExamples - Despite the best efforts of the unwashed layabouts who call themselves the anti-capitalist movement, market forces remain the future of our society.
- And finally, do you consider animals to be lazy layabouts scrounging off our hard-earned wages all the time?
- Antoine is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay.
- They believe that a trusted company client is unlikely to recommend that they employ a layabout.
- ‘I wasn't looked upon as being a layabout or a waster,’ he said.
- No, fancy stuff like that was for the layabouts, the good-for-nothings, the dreamers, those who didn't have a clue as to what was what.
- That system was not put in place to encourage layabouts, but to help people who had fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.
- She said: ‘Homeless people are not all a bunch of layabouts.’
- National members talk about layabouts and bludgers.
- Young men who are often described as layabouts, louts, thugs, animals and leeches were well represented among them.
- The grandfather-of-eight said: ‘She used to let all sorts in - drug addicts, drunks, layabouts and gangs of young tearaways.’
- And though they were often derided as long-haired layabouts, they actually worked extraordinarily hard to conquer new territories and win over new audiences.
- She said: ‘People are just jumping to conclusions and saying they're all layabouts.’
- Well, I must be going - I have to be up early for work in the morning - pay all those taxes to subsidise you the layabouts long term unemployed.
- Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
- The millions of unemployed of the 1980s were layabouts.
- The reason these people, who seem to be mainly male, talentless, 30-something layabouts, conform to such ideals is because they are simplistic (the ideals, of course).
- To others, however, ‘student’ can suggest smelly, dirty, noisy layabouts who, for whatever reason, are intent on doing as little as possible with their time at university.
- Where can I go to get respite care from these louts and layabouts who are ruining my quality of life in York?
- Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through.
Synonyms idler, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, loafer, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed, malingerer, parasite, leech informal skiver, waster, slacker, lazybones, lead-swinger, slob, couch potato Australian/New Zealand informal bludger British informal, chiefly Military scrimshanker archaic wastrel French archaic fainéant
Definition of layabout in US English: layaboutnounˈlāəˌboutˈleɪəˌbaʊt British derogatory A person who habitually does little or no work. 〈贬〉懒人 “How'd you get mixed up with that layabout?” Example sentencesExamples - Young men who are often described as layabouts, louts, thugs, animals and leeches were well represented among them.
- Well, I must be going - I have to be up early for work in the morning - pay all those taxes to subsidise you the layabouts long term unemployed.
- Antoine is a layabout slacker who lives in a lounge at a health club where a friend lets him stay.
- The millions of unemployed of the 1980s were layabouts.
- To others, however, ‘student’ can suggest smelly, dirty, noisy layabouts who, for whatever reason, are intent on doing as little as possible with their time at university.
- The grandfather-of-eight said: ‘She used to let all sorts in - drug addicts, drunks, layabouts and gangs of young tearaways.’
- That system was not put in place to encourage layabouts, but to help people who had fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.
- Despite the best efforts of the unwashed layabouts who call themselves the anti-capitalist movement, market forces remain the future of our society.
- She said: ‘Homeless people are not all a bunch of layabouts.’
- Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through.
- The reason these people, who seem to be mainly male, talentless, 30-something layabouts, conform to such ideals is because they are simplistic (the ideals, of course).
- No, fancy stuff like that was for the layabouts, the good-for-nothings, the dreamers, those who didn't have a clue as to what was what.
- And finally, do you consider animals to be lazy layabouts scrounging off our hard-earned wages all the time?
- National members talk about layabouts and bludgers.
- Where can I go to get respite care from these louts and layabouts who are ruining my quality of life in York?
- She said: ‘People are just jumping to conclusions and saying they're all layabouts.’
- Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
- They believe that a trusted company client is unlikely to recommend that they employ a layabout.
- ‘I wasn't looked upon as being a layabout or a waster,’ he said.
- And though they were often derided as long-haired layabouts, they actually worked extraordinarily hard to conquer new territories and win over new audiences.
Synonyms idler, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, loafer, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed, malingerer, parasite, leech
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