Sentence examples for a layabout from inspiring English sources
She makes Stephen Fry look like a layabout.
It's a bit like the premise of "Brewster's Millions". Brewster is a layabout obsessed with money.
"Billy, are you a layabout?" a reporter asked one man in wonderfully clipped, formal tones.
That is especially true if the man is a layabout with a temper.
Mike Leigh's play is about an assimilated Jewish family that must deal with a layabout son who suddenly becomes devout.
And the smattering of chilled philosophy: "The shoestring traveller... is not a scrounger, a penniless layabout permanently high or a rip-off merchant.
After much searching, he manages to find such a person — a handsome layabout named Marius, encountered at a funeral.
(The director has a cameo as a local layabout and heir to a fortune).
They might not have liked seeing the blame pinned on a drunken layabout of a father and gormless Vicky Pollard-type mother, shellsuited skivers living in a cardboard box, for condemning their children to obesity.
Whether he plays a child psychologist, an auctioneer or a rich layabout, nearly all of his characters share the DNA that predisposes them to being charming jerks.
