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noun

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

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

Resistant to exertion and activity:

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

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