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adjective

Resistant to exertion and activity:

idle, indolent, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish. (Informal) do-nothing. Idiom: bone lazy. See action, industrious

noun

A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity:

bum¹, drone¹, good-for-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer, ne'er-do-well, no-good, slugabed, sluggard, wastrel. (Informal) do-little, do-nothing, lazybones, slug². (Slang) slouch. See industrious

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