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Meanings of idler in English

Portuguese
vagabundo
Catalan
mandrós
Spanish
vago

Person who does no work.

        vagabundo
        Usage of idler in English
        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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        Translations for idler
        Portuguese
        vagabundovadio
        Idler through the time
        Idler across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common