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Idlers Crossword Clue

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97%6Exact Match!
noun

• a disinclination to work or exert yourself

• any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

• apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

96%5Exact Match!
noun

• a worthless lazy fellow

• large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes

• a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought

90%4 Lazy individuals
noun

• a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

• a vagrant

• person who does no work

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

adjective satellite

• of very poor quality; flimsy

verb

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• be lazy or idle

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New York Times27 Nov 2014 Across 57
New York Times14 Jul 1978 Across 13
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