fainéant
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It is only for the loafer that he has no pity; when he has called a fellow-creature fainéant, he has used the strongest invective in his vocabulary.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
Doubtless the fainéant condition of nearly all the daimyōs at this time made the accomplishment of this event more easy.
From Japan by David Murray
How many years has he been a roi fainéant?
From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by James De Mille
For George III. was by no means inclined to be a Roi fainéant.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
Solmes, the fainéant of Steinkirk, was left dead on the field.
From William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
She extols them both, and makes over to their joint care and tuition the fainéants aforesaid.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin
Others are weaklings, fainéants; but one, the most dread woman in Frankish history, Fredegonda, the queen of Chilperic, towers above all in this masque of slaughter and treachery.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
Bold might the planton be; we were no fainéants.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
After Dagobert's death these mayors practically ruled in the place of the Merovingian monarchs, who became mere "do-nothing kings,"—rois fainéants, as the French call them.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
