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LOAFING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no employment
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("loafing" is a kind of...):
inactivity (being inactive; being less active)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loafing"):
dolce far niente (carefree idleness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb loaf
Context examples:
It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger—with a cricket bat in his hand.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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