idler
ahy duh ler
- n person who does no work
- a not in action or at work
- s without a basis in reason or fact
- s not in active use
- s silly or trivial
- s lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- s not yielding a return
- s not having a job
- All true, with only one complication: the look that Sarah Woodruff, the distraught figure on the breakwater, directs at Charles Smithson, the aristocratic young idler who .
- Some idler is sure to begin a critique of Stephen Fry's funny, sharp-tongued novel The Hippopotamus (Random House; 290 pages; $21) by referring loftily to the title character as .
- To add a town-square touch, he designed sidewalk cafes, planted trees, and put benches beneath them for the tired shopper or any idler who wanted to stop for a gossip.