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Do-nothing   Listen
noun
do-nothing  n.  Person who does no work.
Synonyms: idler, loafer, layabout, bum, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Do-nothing" Quotes from Famous Books



... who had met with his deserts; and the brilliant accounts which the all smoothing colonel gave at dinner of Lancelot's physical well doing and agreeable conversation only made her set him down the sooner as a twin clever-do-nothing to the despised Bracebridge, whom she hated for keeping her father in a ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley

... up the Hill, and for once forebore to whistle as he made the ascent. His mind was busy. A week of Dunbury calm and sweet do-nothing had sufficed to make him undeniably restless. Madeline's proposal struck him as rather a jolly idea accordingly. After all, she was a dandy little girl, and he owed her a lot for not making any fuss ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... here to support the case of a poor man who is I think being trampled on by this do-nothing legislator. But I am bound to say that the lord in his kind is very much better than the poor man in his. Such a wretched, squalid, lying, cowardly creature I did not think that even England could produce. And yet the ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope

... nor is any one of them, warrior, sage, king, precisely of Perugino's own time and place, but still contemplations only, after the manner of the personages in his church-work; or, say, dreams—monastic dreams—thin, do-nothing creatures, conjured from sky and cloud. Perugino clearly never broke through the meditative circle of the ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater



Words linked to "Do-nothing" :   slacker, dillydallier, spiv, layabout, mope, idler, daydreamer, nonworker, goof-off, lazybones, lagger, good-for-naught, sluggard, loon, poke, slugabed, shirker, goldbrick, dilly-dallier, ne'er-do-well, dawdler, loafer, trailer, lounger, trifler, no-account, sunbather, whittler



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