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单词	layabouts
释义	layabout noun lay·​about ˈlā-ə-ˌbau̇t  : a lazy shiftless person : idler Synonyms couch potato deadbeat do-nothing drone idler lazybones loafer lotus-eater slouch slug slugabed sluggard See all Synonyms & Antonyms 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 layabouts noun plural of layabout as in deadbeats 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 Relevance deadbeats sluggards idlers snails slugs lazybones loafers bums drones slouches delayers shirkers couch potatoes lotus-eaters slugabeds stragglers laggards lingerers loiterers dawdlers good-for-nothings do-nothings slowpokes crawlers slackers creepers stick-in-the-muds procrastinators clock-watchers goldbricks putterers malingerers ne'er-do-wells lollers saunterers dalliers dropouts loungers quitters Antonyms & Near Antonyms hustlers doers achievers hummers comers go-getters highflyers self-starters highfliers powerhouses go-aheads live wires See More
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