The meaning of Idlers

noun

Spending time using the internet at work for reasons that are not related to your job

Usage examples:

Although prosecutions and disciplinary cases may be rare , the new breed of cyberslacker is an expe…

idiom

To not involve someone or something

Usage examples:

This argument has nothing to do with me., much of the bill has nothing to do with civil rights.

noun

A person who is thought of as worthless

Usage examples:

She’s a lazy good-for-nothing.

noun

A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Usage examples:

Staff were under enormous pressure and there was no time for laggards

adjective

Slower than desired or expected.

Usage examples:

A bell to summon laggard children to school

noun

A company, organization, etc. that does something later, or improves less quickly, than others

Usage examples:

Mexico, long a laggard in financial reform, is at last putting its banks in order., steel companies…

noun

A person who habitually does little or no work.

Usage examples:

‘how'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’

noun

A person who is unwilling to work

noun

A lazy person (often as a form of address).

Usage examples:

‘come for a healthy walk then, lazybones.’

noun

Someone who is lazy

Usage examples:

[ as form of address ] hey lazybones, get up from the sofa and help me with the dishes!

noun

A comfortable chair for relaxing on, especially an outdoor chair that adjusts or extends, allowing a person to recline.

Usage examples:

Kate was lying on a lounger beside a pool

noun

A comfortable chair on which people can sit or lie in order to relax, especially outside in hot weather

Usage examples:

A sun lounger

idiom

An idle worthless person

noun

A person who is lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

A bit of a ne'er-do-well whose only interests seemed to be cards and boozing

adjective

Lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

His ne'er-do-well father walked out before he was born

noun

Someone who avoids something, especially work

Usage examples:

We have no room for shirkers in this office.

noun

A person who is absent from work without permission

noun

A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

Usage examples:

He's a slob and expects others to clean up after him

verb

Behave in a lazy and slovenly way.

Usage examples:

He spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around

noun

A person who is messy, unattractive, and rude

Usage examples:

Some guys are real slobs., a working slob

noun

A person who acts or moves slowly.

Usage examples:

‘come on, slowcoach,’ urged george

noun

Someone, especially a child, who is walking or doing something too slowly

Usage examples:

[ as form of address ] come on, slowcoach, we don't have all day you know!

noun

A tough-skinned terrestrial mollusc which typically lacks a shell and secretes a film of mucus for protection. it can be a serious plant pest.

Usage examples:

Slugs and snails are mainly nocturnal, and the sun's heat can be fatal to slugs and to all mollusc …

verb

Drink (something, typically alcohol) in a large draught; swig.

Usage examples:

She picked up her drink and slugged it straight back

noun

A hard blow.

Usage examples:

Adam frowned and gave him a hard slug in the shoulder.

noun

A lazy person who stays in bed late.

Usage examples:

I was awake at 6: 00 a.m. while the hardened slugabeds wanted to sleep the day away.

noun

A lazy, sluggish person.

Usage examples:

I'm waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak

noun

A lazy person

Usage examples:

He is a sluggard who loves sleep and hates work.

noun

A wasteful person or thing.

Usage examples:

You are a great waster of time