fainéant

Example Sentences

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The situation was that in which the fainéant king accepts the act of the mayor of the palace because it is Hobson’s choice.

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)

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

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Day, Francis

Another example is Arthur, in some romances "the blameless king," in others un roi fainéant.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

Solmes, the fainéant of Steinkirk, was left dead on the field.

From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

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