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James Thurber said that "it is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all," but Reagan seems to have lost nothing in public esteem by taking time off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dale took so many courses that he entered his senior year just one credit short of graduation and could have loafed.

From Time Magazine Archive

They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they?

From Time Magazine Archive

It was rather canny of him to go there—yet I don't see how, in the circumstances, he could have loafed round Leuraville without making talk—though I think it was a great pity he didn't.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.

Levanto I have loafed into Levanto, on the recommendation of an Irish friend who, it would seem, had reasons of his own for sending me there.

From Alone by Douglas, Norman