fainéant

Example Sentences

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Then Aunt Ju took her seat, and was able for the next hour and a half to occupy her arm-chair with gratifying fainéant dignity.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

The government of a native state by clerks and chuprassies, with a beautiful fainéant Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festivals, is, I am told, a thing of the past.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

Even after Tullia was dead the Republic had come again for him, and something might be done to stir up these fainéant nobles!

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

You call me trifler, fainéant, And bid me give my life an aim!—

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Day, Francis

Doubtless the fainéant condition of nearly all the daimyōs at this time made the accomplishment of this event more easy.

From Japan by Murray, David