"layabout" is correct and is used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is lazy and spends their days doing nothing. Example sentence: "Bob is such a layabout, he has been lounging around all day and hasn't done anything productive."
She was also no layabout; she was always on the move, be it via train, paddle-steamer, carriage or her own two feet.
In particular, at the crucial flashback when Willy's teenage son Biff Andrew Garfielddiscoversers his father's marital infidelity, the shock and disillusionment are supposed to explain the long-held mystery of why he turned from a star athlete into an aimless layabout.
Newspaper front pages were filled this week with the tale of Mick Philpott, a benefits-claiming layabout who, with his wife and an accomplice, set fire to his subsidised home in an elaborate attempt to frame his mistress.
The country's strengthening democracy keeps the government in line, and renewed foreign aid pushes it forward.Meanwhile, in Azerbaijan the optimists go on lham Aliev turns out to be something of a reformer, as many foreign officials and businesspeople in Baku think, and not the layabout his critics describe.
Does it matter that the odd layabout finds himself locked up (for up to a year, in theory) for a puff of cannabis?
Danny Allan Cordunerr), a dentist with a definable gift for Jewish jokes, and his loving wife Rachel Caroline Gruberr), who was born on an Israeli kibbutz, are jolted out of their Guardian-reading daily routine by the shift toward religion of their layabout son, Josh Ben Caplann), a 28-year-old maths graduate who still lives at home.
According to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the brutal actions of Mick Philpott, a layabout father of 17 children, who accidentally killed six of his children in a moronic attempt to frame his mistress, shows that "there is a question about the welfare state... subsidising lifestyles like that".
To help readers prepare for the ordeal, ELLE magazine ran an article on the trials of being a "layabout girl in a Sarkozy world".
But they would rather do without one than team up with a layabout, which may be all that is on offer: American men without jobs spend only half as much time on housework and caring for others as do women in the same situation, and much more time watching television.Hence the unravelling of working-class families.
By 2007, just before their ways parted, he was advising the chief layabout on how to invest £40m in stocks.Financial rescue was not all he managed for the Stones.
For the strip's first 10 years, she was the girlfriend of Castor's layabout pal, Ham Gravy, and her jealousy over his wandering eye fueled many comedic episodes.
