Examples of loafer

• He may try in the poem's second stanza to pose as a loafer "at my ease," but in fact he is working constantly to fetch his readers to him.

• If ever the democracy of this country deal with loafers, they will deal with them at both ends of the social scale.

• They can judge between members who are pure loafers and those who deserve a little better treatment.

• Why, then, are the very large proportion who are not loafers to be penalised for the very small proportion who may happen to be so?

• We cannot have in this country loafers and idlers, and we shall not want them.

• There is no room for idlers and loafers, be they rich or poor, nor should there be any able-bodied person compulsorily unemployed.

• As matters stand now, we know it is only the willing horse who goes, while the loafers and shirkers stay at home.

• They were not the loafers of the town.