as in slug
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
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Recent Examples of layabout
Moore’s then-husband Bruce Willis plays against-type as the abusive layabout husband of hairdresser Joyce (Glenne Headly).
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
In Yancheng, in eastern China, the police have checked karaoke bars, rental housing and hotels for potential layabouts.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Again, these workshy layabouts take a day off, but the jamboree ends on New Year’s Day, with Brentford at home to Arsenal.
—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Republicans consistently slander disability recipients as malingerers and layabouts.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
In Yancheng, in eastern China, the police have checked karaoke bars, rental housing and hotels for potential layabouts.
—Vivian Wang, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Again, these workshy layabouts take a day off, but the jamboree ends on New Year’s Day, with Brentford at home to Arsenal.
—Nick Miller, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Republicans consistently slander disability recipients as malingerers and layabouts.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for layabout
Noun
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Snails can look like little elephants, slugs can look like fish, and worms can look like swimming chandeliers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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The reflective foil discourages unwanted insects and pests like slugs from approaching and harming the plants, but actually helps to attract butterflies.—
Darcy Lenz,
Southern Living,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In military settings, electronic warfare (EW) units use powerful transmitters to broadcast noise or false signals on the same frequencies, overwhelming or confusing the drone’s receiver.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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On September 24, airports in Denmark and Norway were closed after drones appeared in the sky.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Jeremiah is slutting it up with Steven’s colleagues and Taylor’s friends and generally embracing life as a once-and-future deadbeat.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Michael Mando was a relatively minor player in the Orphan Black universe, appearing in early seasons as Vic, Sarah's deadbeat ex-boyfriend.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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While a proper selection of fall shoes should include boots, sneakers, and loafers, clogs have also earned their spot on the list of wardrobe staples.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sam Edelman Lucca Loafer A great loafer worn on the streets of the Brera is so very Milanese.—
Nneya Richards,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.—
Gaby Keiderling,
Harper's BAZAAR,
19 Jan. 2023
Noun
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Many springs feature a visible boil at the water surface above the spring vent, crystal clear water, submerged grasses waving in the current, and a range of fish, turtles, snails and other aquatic animals hiding in the grasses.—
Christopher F. Meindl,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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In our lives how many things are like the snail, never thought of?—
Victoria Chang,
The New York Review of Books,
2 Oct. 2025
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Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
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Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
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“Layabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layabout. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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