as in slug
a lazy person
an incorrigible loafer who never accomplished anything
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Recent Examples of loafer
The loafers are stamped with the American Podiatric Medical Association Seal of Acceptance, which means doctors give them a thumbs up for supporting foot health.
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2025
Bieber also wore a black baseball cap, and on her feet, a pair of white ankle socks and leopard print loafers.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2025
Pumps, ballet flats, boots, and loafers are all options that will work with little problem.
—Renata Joffre, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2025
Some of Meredith’s real-world activity also troubled him: in June of 2020, Meredith had appeared at a protest for racial justice, in a small north-Georgia town, wearing loafers and brandishing an IWI Tavor X95 rifle.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
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Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2025
Bieber also wore a black baseball cap, and on her feet, a pair of white ankle socks and leopard print loafers.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2025
Pumps, ballet flats, boots, and loafers are all options that will work with little problem.
—Renata Joffre, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2025
Some of Meredith’s real-world activity also troubled him: in June of 2020, Meredith had appeared at a protest for racial justice, in a small north-Georgia town, wearing loafers and brandishing an IWI Tavor X95 rifle.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loafer
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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After some apparent delays, Speed’s massive tour bus, trailed by a convoy of black SUVs, rolled up to the entrance of the Coliseum, where it was greeted with a rah-rah routine from University of Southern California cheerleaders and a drone filming his big entrance from above.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct. 2025
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After those incidents, the parliament voted to allow the armed forces to shoot down any unmanned drone violating its airspace.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 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
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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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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The Tigers are no slouch in the American Conference and have respectable College Football Playoff aspirations.—
Sam Sklar,
Mississippi Clarion Ledger,
18 Sep. 2025
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The defense only gave up 82 rushing yards — and against a mobile quarterback like Kyler Murray, that’s no slouch.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The revolution is in tatters, and DiCaprio’s Bob, once a celebrity rebel, is now a benignly useless substance-using layabout who tries, in his shambling way, to take care of his and Perfidia’s daughter, Willa (played with a no-nonsense radiance by Chase Infiniti).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
17 Sep. 2025
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Dreux has entrusted Alyssa with delivering Uche’s money before the first of the month—but instead, Alyssa has asked her layabout, freeloading boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) to put the money in Uche’s hands.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Loafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loafer. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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