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Meanings of idler in anglès

portuguès
vagabundo
català
mandrós
espanyol
vago

Person who does no work.

mandrós
Usage of idler in anglès
1
Seeing an idler in the square above she questioned him in Spanish.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
2
The parasite pluckily sets to; the idler becomes a glutton for work.
The Mason-Bees
3
You can help only by abolishing the one idler under your control.
The Conflict
4
He and the idler are equally honored, and die the same death.
National Epics
5
Certainly; from twelve to sunset I shall be roving about,- amereidler.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03
6
Campbell himself said he was an idler by the side of him.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
7
Nay, and the idler has another and more important quality than these.
Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
8
The war had cut off Italy's greatest source of ready money-theidler.
The World Decision
9
Kedzie hated to be referred to as a worker by an idler.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
10
Yet Theodore Roosevelt had long since determined not to be an idler.
American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt
11
Even Michelangelo, idler that he was, dashed off only one Sistine Chapel.
The Guardian
12
Johnston, whom I knew, was exactly what his distinguished step-brother charged-anidler.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
13
He became an idler, a man of luxury, and then a spendthrift.
Phineas Redux
14
It isn't as if he was an idler, or a bad son.
The Old Wives' Tale
15
The idler in the exedra, meanwhile, was awaiting the speech of her visitor.
The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
16
Else I remain the idler, the courtier-theson of the King.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 4
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