goldbricking 1 of 2

noun

as in loafing

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goldbricking

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verb

present participle of goldbrick
as in idling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goldbricking
  1. loafing
  2. idling
  3. lounging
  4. bumming
  5. lolling
  6. hanging around
  7. lethargy
  8. hanging
Noun
  • The researchers concluded that at least one of the keys to preventing social loafing is restoring individual responsibility within a group.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of loafing
Verb
  • Diesel engine idling and high-risk industrial activity across the street from homes and parks would bring air, noise and light pollution.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
  • And Rovell quickly discovered Kobe’s mind was incapable of idling, even during dead-of-night text exchanges.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of idling
Noun
  • Additional highlights include two more fireplaces and a three-car garage, plus a landscaped backyard with a swimming pool and ample patio space for alfresco lounging and dining areas.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Wear lounging, during long shifts, or layering under dresses, tights, or skirts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of lounging
Verb
  • Spring cleaning bumming you out?
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That’s what was bumming him out.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Definition of bumming
Noun
  • The buck, tongue lolling, looked exhausted from chasing and breeding his doe.
    — Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The pup, named Eba, appeared immune to being rushed and trotted behind at the farthest extent of her leash, tongue lolling, black eyes squinting in the afternoon sun.
    — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of lolling
Verb
  • Dorothy recalls patrons hanging around the shop for hours, running her hands along a rainbow of silk ties, and picking up tailor pins with her cousins to pass the time.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
  • May Rosenberg, the wife of the critic Harold Rosenberg, once visited Krasner’s studio and assumed that the man hanging around in dungarees, not saying much of anything, was an intellectually disabled janitor.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of hanging around
Noun
  • His Envita medical records from this time detail his lethargy, his cough and his precipitous drop in weight.
    — Trisha Thadani Kirsten Potter Tanya Pérez Devin Murphy, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Phrasemaking is perhaps no contribution to the intellectual heritage of the race, but phrasemakers do snap us out of lethargy, and frequently out of ingrowing pessimism, which may be worse than frenzy.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of lethargy
Verb
  • Those included hanging traffic signals, scaffolding, water towers and the correct power lines.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Pacific Neon had installer James Guthrey in a crane about 10 feet in the air and had the sign attached to a saddle and hanging over the poles.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Goldbricking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goldbricking. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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