Another word for fainéant | Synonyms for fainéant

Another word for fainéant

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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The new prince of Scotland, John (an unlucky name, later changed to Robert), was a faineant: the king's second son, Robert, earl of Fife (later first duke of Albany), was a man of energy and ambition, while the character of the third, Alexander, is expressed in his sobriquet, " The Wolf of Badenoch."
It was now, for the first time, that Gustavus, reduced to the condition of a roi faineant, began seriously to consider the possibility of a revolution; of its necessity there could be no doubt.

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