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Do-nothing   /du-nˈəθɪŋ/   Listen
Do-nothing

adjective
1.
Characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility.





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"Do-nothing" Quotes from Famous Books



... luxury. The court of the Merovingian king became a miserable assemblage of half-Romanized barbarians covered with the frayed and worn-out mantle of imperialism. It is a strange picture we have of this descendant of Clovis, this Roi Faineant (Do-nothing King) in a royal procession on a state occasion. Curled and perfumed, he emerges from the Palais des Thermes, attended in great pomp by Romans and Romanized Frankish warriors. Then, in remembrance of the primitive simplicity of his ancestral line, sitting alone in ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele


Words linked to "Do-nothing" :   bum, trailer, dawdler, sunbather, slugabed, woolgatherer, trifler, lazybones, spiv, drone, goof-off, shirker, mope, dallier, daydreamer, sluggard, poke, slacker, good-for-naught, goldbrick, dilly-dallier, lagger, irresponsible, clock watcher, no-account, laggard, slug, lounger, ne'er-do-well, loon, good-for-nothing, whittler, lie-abed, nonworker, couch potato, dillydallier


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