as in slug
a lazy person
an incorrigible loafer who never accomplished anything
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Recent Examples of loafer
On Instagram, the Babygirl actress posted a photo from her vacation in Chile wearing a dark-wash, wide-leg pair styled with a tweed blazer, loafers, and a baseball cap.
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Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026
Key elements of the mystery include a dead rabbit, a live frog, a pair of loafers, a rifle, a milk bottle, and a millionaire who comes to town in a chauffeured limousine.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Vionic Caitlin Loafer Every closet needs at least one pair of classic loafers.
—Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
Finish the look with dark blue straight-leg jeans and loafers, or tuck it into a white linen midi skirt with sandals.
—Alex Sales, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2026
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Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 21 Jan. 2026
Key elements of the mystery include a dead rabbit, a live frog, a pair of loafers, a rifle, a milk bottle, and a millionaire who comes to town in a chauffeured limousine.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Vionic Caitlin Loafer Every closet needs at least one pair of classic loafers.
—Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2026
Finish the look with dark blue straight-leg jeans and loafers, or tuck it into a white linen midi skirt with sandals.
—Alex Sales, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loafer
Noun
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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Garden snakes have important roles in your landscape, eating insects and invertebrates such as slugs and providing food for birds of prey such as hawks and owls.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2026
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The drones targeted the power grid, which Russia has repeatedly bombarded during the coldest winter in years, and also hit five apartment blocks, officials said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Drugs, weapons, and cell phones enter facilities through drones, perimeter breaches, staff misconduct, and inadequate search procedures.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The adventurous actress dirties up her frock and face to play the village pariah, who reeks of fish and would be no man’s idea of a suitable wife, except perhaps the one-eyed bum who sleeps in the town square.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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The series’ script comes from Park Jae-bum, who is known for his work on Vincenzo and Good Doctor.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
14 Jan. 2026
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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Wetlands in the area are also home to Everglades snail kites, which hunt for apple snails in freshwater marshes, and other rare species that once inhabited vast wet prairies drained for highways and neighborhoods.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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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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And the other starters in the secondary are no slouches, either.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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In many quarters, there’s a general consensus that the rough beast, in Yeats’ words, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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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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As the story begins, Mary and Boo are neighbors, unemployed millennial layabouts who rarely leave their rooms.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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Tamma’s mother is partnered with a drug-dealing layabout; Dan’s mother, a onetime successful novelist, has a worsening heart condition.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Loafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loafer. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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