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17 translations across 14 languages.
7 total sentences available.
If someone, because of his love of a forest, walks there half of every day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, chopping down that forest and making the earth bald before its time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Source: tatoeba (10268589)
The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
Source: wiktionary
Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
Source: wiktionary
Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include idler, layabout, arab, beach bum, beachcomber.
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