Idlers

Diminutive, with distinctive white, swept back hair and latterly wearing a black leather jacket, he was as happy talking to dons as to idlers and chancers.

The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils.

Therefore, idlers and fake news merchants in Nigeria have found an engaging job of tainting the image of the Nigerian Army.

EXPERIENCE: Joint-author in 2012 of a controversial booklet, Britannia Unchained, which alleged 'the British are among the worst idlers in the world'.

Mr. Thwaites says a focus must be placed on the re-socialization of idlers, some of whom live in areas where states of public emergency are currently in effect.

It just makes no sense to treat the serious idlers the same as paying customers — the people who pay the salaries of all the hard-working baristas.

It was in Shandong, at this time, that he became one of the group known as the "Six Idlers of the Bamboo Brook", an informal group dedicated to literature and wine.

There was normally very little possibility of "earning a crust" without working at all, and the usual attitude toward beggars and idlers was harsh.