(n.) One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
(n.) One who has constant day duties on board ship, and keeps no regular watch.
(n.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her fourth album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, was released earlier this year.
(2) T., Idler, W. W., Roop, D. R., and Steinert, P. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(3) The Idler Academy , an offshoot of the magazine which offers courses in everything from philosophy to ukulele playing, has announced the shortlist for its 2014 Bad Grammar award, set up to highlight "the incorrect use of English by people and institutions who should know better".
(4) The latter is "a great place if you're under three or over 53; shite if you're anywhere in between," said Dan Kieran, deputy editor of the Idler, who launched the hunt for crapness last year on the magazine's website.
(5) A., Mehrel, T., Idler, W. W., Roop, D. R., and Steinert, P. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(6) She returned to the stage earlier this year, appearing at SXSW and subsequently releasing The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.
(7) Previews of some of the diatribes on the Idler website have not completely upset targets, however, with even the Top Crap Town, Hull, pointing out that the survey is not all bad.
(8) In fairness to the five Tory MPs who first pricked the bubble, via leaked excerpts from their forthcoming book arguing that we're not the nation of champions we had giddily begun imagining but "among the worst idlers of the world", this wasn't quite the plan.
(9) As for the politicians' "third-generation" perma-idlers, these are on the critically endangered list – if not entirely fictional.
(10) Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.39pm BST Amid lots of yelping and squealing by idlers on the side of the road, the riders toddle around Versailles.
(11) The passage, red meat for phone-ins and columnists ever since, argued less politely for an improvement in our national work ethic: "The British are among the worst idlers in the world.
(12) The woman who would go on to become employment minister co-wrote a book attacking Britons as “ among the worst idlers in the world ”.
(13) The MPs – Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss – say: "Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.
(14) Britons are among "the worst idlers" in the world preferring a "lie-in to hard work", according to group of rising stars of the Tory party, who have advocated a tough set of work reforms in a new book.
(15) Additionally, as Polly Toynbee has pointed out ( Opinion , 23 February), Priti Patel – the employment minister and a leading Brexit advocate – has castigated British workers as “the worst idlers in the world”.
(16) "Arguing that working Britons are 'the worst idlers in the world' is deeply insulting.
(17) That didn't stop him from leaping into a backward shuffle, startling nearby idlers, when a popular Azonto track began playing from the speakers.
(18) They employ stepper motor actuated roller and idler wheel drives to move the probes.
(19) More recently, disruption of a P-450-encoding sequence (eryF) in the region of ermE, the erythromycin resistance gene of S. erythraea, produced a 6-deoxyerythronolide B hydroxylation-deficient mutant (J. M. Weber, J. O. Leung, S. J. Swanson, K. B. Idler, and J.
(20) Priti Patel, employment minister and coming Brexit star, co-authored Britannia Unchained, castigating British workers as “the worst idlers in the world”.
Vagabond
Definition:
(a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
(a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
(a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
(n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
(v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
Example Sentences:
(1) An adaptation of the award-winning novel Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1940s, and Desperate Romantics, about a group of "vagabond painters and poets" set among the "alleys, galleries and flesh houses of 19th-century industrial London", will be among the first to be broadcast later this year.
(2) He said while he was being filmed in the Vagabond studio in Bethnal Green he was thinking about Winston Churchill getting his tattoo done.
(3) In view of that it seems necessary to solve a problem of organizing tuberculosis-oriented treatment-and-labor preventoria to render health care to the vagabonds and other patients refusing medical intervention.
(4) It’s more comfortable for many to believe instead that these aliens are greedy and parasitical, scroungers and vagabonds who want to take our stuff – our jobs, our homes, our school places, our cures for our sicknesses.
(5) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
(6) The female female lead a vagabond life and actively join the male male in their territories during the breeding season.
(7) When people think of the homeless , most can only think of the seeming vagabonds that stink up entire subway cars and beg for change on the street.
(8) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
(9) The vagabonds had many troubles, especially, they often escaped from leprosaria.
(10) They were two vagabonds, Cloquet watching with slackness the young womanizering Flaubert.
(11) And remember, society's hard cases – what the Elizabethan poor law (that's Elizabeth I) would have dubbed the "sturdy rogue and vagabonds" who don't want to work and so enrage the tabloids – are not the type you'll probably find in this sort of office in Hull or elsewhere.
(12) Low incidence rates of tuberculosis are directly related to social factors, including higher morbidity among such groups as migrants, vagabonds, ex-convicts and alcohol abusers.
(13) "I think that in the same way Gabe is probably glad that his mother was a vagabond and not around him enough, and he got to go to all these strange places that now feel enriching."