Example Sentences

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And we tell the liars, deniers, and do-nothings to shove off: There’s no future in naysaying.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2019

Winkler’s Gene Cousineau, a self-serious buffoon long used to being surrounded by weightless do-nothings, mistakes Barry’s confession for an improvised monologue.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2019

We associate loafing with people wasting their lives; with harried parents shaking their sleeping teenage children out of bed; with do-nothings, doing nothing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2018

To a heckler's shout that King George is a do-nothing and should be paid no more than do-nothings who are on the Dole.

From Time Magazine Archive

We reached the king’s anteroom, where the usual crowd of do-nothings and good-for-nothings was assembled.

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot