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121drone — 1. verb 1) a plane droned overhead Syn: hum, buzz, whirr, vibrate, murmur, rumble, purr 2) he droned on about right and wrong Syn: speak boringly, go on and on, talk at length; intone …
122good-for-nothing — 1. adjective a good for nothing bum Syn: useless, worthless, incompetent, inefficient, inept, ne er do well; lazy, idle, slothful, indolent, shiftless; informal no good, lousy Ant: worthy 2. noun lazy good for nothings …
123ne'er-do-well — noun I don t want to end up a ne er do well like my old man Syn: good for nothing, layabout, loafer, idler, shirker, sluggard, slugabed, drone; informal lazybones, bum; archaic wastrel …
124shirker — noun you ll find no shirkers in my crew Syn: dodger, truant, absentee, layabout, good for nothing, loafer, idler; informal slacker, bum, lazybones …
125slacker — noun, informal all right, you slackers, let s get this cargo across the river before the sun sets Syn: layabout, idler, shirker, malingerer, sluggard, laggard; informal lazybones, bum, goof off …
126dawdler — n laggard, lingerer, loiterer; lie abed, slugabed, layabout, dreamer, lotus eater, drone, lounger; snail, slowpoke, tortoise, afternoon farmer, lazybones; loafer, faineant, do nothing, sluggard, sloth, idler, trifler; shirker, Sl. goof off,… …
127idler — n loafer, lounger, loiterer, lazybones, sluggard, slugabed, sloth, dawdler, snail, laggard, slouch, lolle, Weary Willie; dreamer, lotus eater, castle builder; vagrant, drifter, tramp, beggar, Inf. bum, Brit. layabout, deadbeat, pike, piker, Inf.… …
128loafer — n idler, do nothing, slouch, sluggard, lounger, loller, faineant, Fr. flaneur, Brit. layabout, Sl. drugstore cowboy; malinger, shirker, clock watcher, Inf. goldbricker, Sl. goof off, Sl. featherbedder, Both Brit. Sl. skiver, scrimshanker;… …
