Meanings of layabout in English

It was Jane who spotted ability and ambition in the teenage layabout.

An alcoholic layabout is asked by his wife to look after their baby.

Once again, a figure of trust is portrayed as a drunken, irresponsible layabout.

But, is she really a worse role model than that passive layabout, Sleeping Beauty?

The reason they go for Tommy's because he's a layabout.

Marie, get those two layabout men to unroll the carpet.

Years ago, he established a reputation as a casual layabout, a bit of a bumbler.

Maybe he'd put up some research money. You wouldn't mistake Erik Nelson for a layabout.

I didn't mean to be such a layabout-

The guise of debauched layabout vanished.

The other brighter, but a layabout.

She had always thought him a lecher and a layabout, and today, a monster; but he genuinely cared for Ullii.

Hulu's show tapped into a certain kind of layabout, day-drinking malaise that is currently missing from a lot of people's summers.

The supervisor is sitting extremely comfortably with his legs crossed and his arm hanging over the backrest here like some layabout.

We first meet Star, a spirited Texan, doing her best to care for her layabout mother's other two children in trying circumstances.

And the smattering of chilled philosophy: The shoestring traveller... is not a scrounger, a penniless layabout permanently high or a rip-off merchant.