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Definition of Layabouts
1. layabout [n] - See also: layabout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Layabouts
Literary usage of Layabouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Townby Cory Doctorow by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts
next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, ..."
2. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"... more satisfactory terms than the crude stereotypes of pampered sons and
tyrannical patriarchs and, of late, of irresponsible layabouts (Jackson, 1998). ..."
3. Adventure Guide Naples, Sorrento & the Amalfi Coast by Marina Carter (2006)
"... for his familiarity with the young layabouts so often remarked upon by visitors
to the city. His wife, Maria Carolina, daughter of the Austrian Empress, ..."
4. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
"The "senhores" — as dissolute a group of layabouts and criminals as Dom Duarte
had ever railed against — shouted encouragement. ..."
5. Notes to Transformation: A Guidebook on the Inner Journey to the Self by John James (1994)
"... layabouts and bludgers. If we want to find what has been hidden away, we only
have to lookat the sort of people we judge or disparage. ..."
6. Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War by Patrick K. Muana, Chris Corcoran, Russell D. Feingold (2005)
"... that the first piece they sing in the play is the jingle in Act II, Scene i :
Ren kam, san kam, rare man go bet ‘Rain or shine the layabouts will bite). ..."
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