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Recent Examples of procrastinatorThat's the price of being a procrastinator.—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025 That’s the price of being a procrastinator.—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
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.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2019
Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2017
Twiggy appeared at Burberry's spring 2026 show during London Fashion Week in a simple black suit, white collared shirt and black tie, adding black loafers and a pair of black sunglasses.
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Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
Moreover, preppy style is trending this season—plaid skirts, loafers, rugby shirts—so headbands offer the perfect finish touch.
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.
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Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.
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