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During a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as "among the worst idlers in the world".

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022

There are few schools for idlers or households for the lazy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2018

Contrary to predictions by slavery’s defenders, the liberated slaves did not become idlers, but divided their time between continued plantation work and cultivating individual plots the army assigned them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

It seems as if all you have to do is cross the avenue to melt into the thin Sunday crowd of browsers and idlers.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017

Men hurrying by stopped to stare inquisitively before moving on, idlers stood or sat around lazily indulging their curiosity.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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