faineant

1 Send us a faineant governor, a King Log, who will not presume to interfere with us; a governor who will spend his money and live like a gentleman, and care little or nothing for politics.

2 "Master you until the little remnant of your authority shall have been sapped; until you are no more than a puppet in the hands of the Huguenot party, a roi faineant, a king of straw."

3 So said Dormer,—who simply died because his wife died, who could not have touched his brush if one of his girls had been suffering, who, with all his genius, was but a faineant workman.

4 I'll wager, darling, you have seen your uncles, who manage so well that I, at seventeen years of age, am no better than a roi faineant.

5 So this faineant took but little part in the electioneering doings, holding moodily aloof from the meetings, and councils, and public-houses, where his father's partisans were assembled.

6 An habitual drunkard was more welcome at "raisings" and "logrollings" than a known faineant.

7 A faineant governor and the prestige of British power is now the political aspiration of the Canadians in general; and I think that this is understood in the States.

8 King Arthur has fallen into slothful and faineant ways, much to the grief of Guenevere, who sees her lord's fame and prestige waning day by day.

9 Here’s me not using faineant in a sentence.

10 Yours is the faineant spirit of the decadent, masquerading in the garb of a sham primitivism.

11 But, of course, I must make it easy for the Council to get rid of a faineant President, if they prefer that course.

12 A race that is not to the swift, a prize that no merits enforce, But is won by some faineant youth, who shall simply walk over the course?

13 Finally. My kin and neighbour people still admitted me . They are faineant.

最后. 我的亲戚和邻居们还是承认了我.

14 So long as I am in the chair, I cannot be a faineant or refuse to do anything and everything incidental to the position.

15 I'd rather marry the roughest viking that ever sailed the seas than the most accomplished faineant.

16 A loud protest will arise against the faineant policy which declines to interfere while men of English blood are uselessly murdering each other by thousands, and while England's most important manufacture is thereby ruined....

17 I wonder if the faineant Sultan who luxuriates at Langat knows anything of the sensationalism of his "yacht."

18 If that be true—and I do not think that any who know the Canadas will deny it—must it not be presumed that they will soon also desire a faineant minister in Downing Street?

19 She called herself harsh names: egoist, craven, faineant.

20 "A faineant, a dilettante; a man with all the God-given ability to do as he will and to succeed, and yet who will not take the trouble to persevere."

1 怠惰者

sluggard do-little

2 怠惰的

lazy sluggish supine truant indolent feckless slothful slumberous sluggardly do-little

3 游手好闲者

bum deadbeat idler lounger dawdler flaneur piss artist bludger

4 游手好闲的

idle

5 无所事事

unoccupied vacuous loaferish idly idleness vacuousness flanerie twiddle with thumbs twiddle thumbs at grass

6 无所事事的

unoccupied vacuous loaferish

7 懒惰

lazy idle inactive recumbent indolent do-nothing sluggard slugabed idly lazily supinely slouchingly inertia inactivity laziness inaction idleness indolence acedia slovenry lazy idle sleepy sluggish indolent slothful dozy shiftless otiose sloth

8 不做事的

whitehanded

9 懒汉

drone slug bum slob do-nothing sluggard bludger

10 懒惰者

truant idler

11 怠惰

lazy sluggish supine truant indolent feckless slothful slumberous sluggardly do-little slothfully inapplication laziness sloth slothfulness idlesse goof jauk

12 懒惰的

lazy idle inactive recumbent indolent do-nothing sluggard slugabed lazy idle sleepy sluggish indolent slothful dozy shiftless otiose

13 游手好闲

idle idleness flanerie drone fool bum dawdle loaf trifle with laze away