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loafer

nounCommon GRE wordMore L words

a person who avoids work and spends time in idle leisure

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Loafer in a sentence

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His father called him a loafer for spending all summer doing nothing productive.

Synonyms
idlerslackerlayaboutsluggard
Antonyms
workerstriver
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Loafer (noun) means a person who avoids work and spends time in idle leisure
Here is loafer used in an example sentence: "His father called him a loafer for spending all summer doing nothing productive."
Common synonyms for loafer include idler, slacker, layabout, sluggard.
Antonyms of loafer include worker, striver.
Loafer is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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