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Associations to the word «Faineant»

Wiktionary

FAINEANT, noun. An irresponsible or lazy person.
FAINÉANT, noun. Alternative spelling of faineant
FAINEANT DEITIES, noun. Plural of faineant deity
FAINEANT DEITY, noun. A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshipped.

Dictionary definition

FAINEANT, adjective. Disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne