as in slug
a lazy person
an incorrigible loafer who never accomplished anything
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Recent Examples of loafer
Wear it to work with a blazer and loafers, or dress it up with kitten heels for date night.
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
So, act fast and order your Gucci loafer dupes before your perfect (and affordable) fall shoe is gone.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 22 Sep. 2025
Of all the shoe trends for fall, soft loafers might be the most comfortable and practical.
—Mayte Salido, Glamour, 21 Sep. 2025
And Yang was, otherwise, tuxedo-ready in black wool cigarette pants, cummerbund and loafers.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loafer
Noun
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Snails can look like little elephants, slugs can look like fish, and worms can look like swimming chandeliers.—
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The reflective foil discourages unwanted insects and pests like slugs from approaching and harming the plants, but actually helps to attract butterflies.—
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Defenders downed or suppressed 566 drones and 45 missiles, the air force said.—
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Kyiv awoke to loud explosions, drones flying overhead and air defenses booming.—
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Among them are South Korean’s CIA Director (Ryoo Seung-bum) and the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport (Takayuki Yamada).—
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This is still proudly beach bum territory.—
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Some, like many jellyfish and swimming snails, consist of a thin layer of cells wrapped around a large nonliving ball of gelatinous material.—
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So, over the years, adventurous customizers have transplanted everything from Porsche engines to small-block V-8s into the model in an attempt to crest inclines at more than a snail’s pace.—
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His discoveries promise to upset the gaming tables of every school of thought that wagers on new and untested art for idlers’ rewards: the love of novelty, the will to make or unmake reputations, the wish to be hip or au courant.—
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Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.—
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The Tigers are no slouch in the American Conference and have respectable College Football Playoff aspirations.—
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The defense only gave up 82 rushing yards — and against a mobile quarterback like Kyler Murray, that’s no slouch.—
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Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.—
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Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.—
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The revolution is in tatters, and DiCaprio’s Bob, once a celebrity rebel, is now a benignly useless substance-using layabout who tries, in his shambling way, to take care of his and Perfidia’s daughter, Willa (played with a no-nonsense radiance by Chase Infiniti).—
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Dreux has entrusted Alyssa with delivering Uche’s money before the first of the month—but instead, Alyssa has asked her layabout, freeloading boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) to put the money in Uche’s hands.—
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“Loafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loafer. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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