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Meanings of faineant in English
Synonyms
Examples for "lazy"
Examples for "lazy"
1
I can hear the lazy sea a short distance over the embankment.
2
His lazy list of political demands may have reflected an essential pyromania.
3
Route 6 went past in a long, lazy curve to the right.
4
I'm quite healthy but I can also be quite lazy about it.
5
A police department cruiser leads the way, lights flashing in lazy salute.
1
The clinical course is heterogeneous, manifested by a fulminant or indolent course.
2
In conclusion the indolent nature of the disease justifies a conservative approach.
3
It is often characterized by a clinically indolent course and delayed diagnosis.
4
Purpose: Patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma typically respond well to first-line immunochemotherapy.
5
PCBCL is generally an indolent form of lymphoma with a good prognosis.
1
It was in no way cheap; it did not flatter slothful ears.
2
Indeed in sleep 5 The slothful body, that does love to steep
3
Mr. Threader, by contrast, played the slothful tortoise to Drake's enterprising hare.
4
Minstrels were a slothful lot, averse to the chill of early morning.
5
I heard it then, the rough, fatty breathing of a slothful soul.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
1
That is the best of news for some of us work-shy or feeble gardeners.
2
For all but the most lavish and work-shy couples, a honeymoon has a defined end date.
3
He said I was a drug-addict, lazy, work-shy.
4
And no one could ever call him work-shy.
5
What are you snivelling for, you little work-shy?
Usage of faineant in English
1
They were the Mayors of that Palace; he only le roi faineant.
2
An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.
3
While a roi faineant may fulfil effectively all the essential duties of sovereignty, an autocrate faineant is an absurdity.
4
I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."
5
So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.
6
The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardor than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
7
The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardour than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
8
The Company contents itself with being Mayor of the Palace, while the Roi Faineant is suffered to play at being a sovereign.