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 best answer can be found in the story of the Colony, for the General Assembly, at all events, has never been a fainéant ruler.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

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 O'Rell, Max

The Invisible King is not, after all, a roi fainéant.

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William

Accomplished antiquarians and “commissioners” assisted him in his labours; but he was no roi fainéant on the editorial sofa which he so complacently describes.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir