fainéant

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"Indeed, yes;—or you will be known to all posterity as the fainéant government."

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

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

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

From Point Lace and Diamonds by Day, Francis

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

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

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