Usage examples (36)

• Sometimes, during the summer, I feel like an idler because I do not have any schoolwork to do.
• They should be taught that to labor is honorable, and that the idler is a menace to the commonwealth.
• That puts him perilously closed to being, by Edward's lights, a dreaded "idler" living off his wife's income.
• "idler," give to the whole little society the aspect of nothing so much as the court of Prinz Irenaeus in Kater Murr's inestimable autobiography.