fainéant

Example Sentences

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Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a fainéant government is not the worst government that England can have.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

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

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

George de Lacorfe, fashionable, fainéant and forty, reader of The Pink 'Un, ardent bachelor, Basker in short, suddenly finds the dukedom of Cheviot thrust upon him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

How many years has he been a roi fainéant?

From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by De Mille, James