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    Use "loafer" in a sentence

    loafer example sentences

    loafer


    1. "Nah, only a loafer like this one


    2. Those houses are unaffordable for a loafer like me


    3. He wore a sneaker on his right foot and a leather loafer on his left, but the mismatched shoes were not the most identifiable characteristic the man had going for him


    4. His shoes appeared to be black loafer types of shoes


    5. "Gross!” Dropping it, he wiped sticky fingers on the front of a black shirt and ground the heel of a loafer over the squishy mound


    6. A loafer and a liar


    7. Near the hotel there was always a kind of loafer who accosted travellers, and who would not refuse


    8. They belong to a Loafer class


    9. The section represents not individuals - but the loafer class


    10. `That's more than you or I or anyone else can say,' returned Owen, `but it certainly wasn't the wealthy loafer class, or the landlords, or the employers

    11. Some of these men were of the tramp or the drunken loafer class; some were old, broken-down workmen like himself, and others were labourers wearing corduroy or moleskin trousers with straps round their legs under their knees


    12. There was as many as one loafer leaning up against every awning-post, and he most always had his hands in his britches-pockets, except when he fetched them out to lend a chaw of tobacco or scratch


    13. —And what's the number for? loafer number two queried


    14. He was the president of the corporation that I was in the process of dismantling, loafer by loafer


    15. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in a few minutes dressed as a common loafer


    16. I tried to help him with my experience, telling him that he was one of my nearest neighbors, and that I too, who came a-fishing here, and looked like a loafer, was getting my living like himself; that I lived in a tight, light, and clean house, which hardly cost more than the annual rent of such a ruin as his commonly amounts to; and how, if he chose, he might in a month or two build himself a palace of his own; that I did not use tea, nor coffee, nor butter, nor milk, nor fresh meat, and so did not have to work to get them; again, as I did not work hard, I did not have to eat hard, and it cost me but a trifle for my food; but as he began with tea, and coffee, and butter, and milk, and beef, he had to work hard to pay for them, and when he had worked hard he had to eat hard again to repair the waste of his system—and so it was as broad as it was long, indeed it was broader than it was long, for he was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he had rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day


    17. "You booby, you loose fellow! You'll come to want—you'll go begging, you seditious fellow, you—you loafer


    18. Ah, but he's a loafer, that lad


    19. The writer of this letter is Loafer Redhorse, a son-in-law of the Titon Chief, Swift Bear, whose band have colonized as homesteaders along the Niobrara River near the mouth of Keya Paha River


    20. Loafer Redhorse is anything but a loafer

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    Synonyms for "loafer"

    loafer bum do-nothing idler layabout dawdler derelict

    "loafer" definitions

    person who does no work


    a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel