loafer

• One looked like the most sodden type of Skid Row loafer, and the elegant disarray of the other could mean nothing but the lower reaches of the upper layers of Hollywood. —  Astounding, January 1943
• Give me the sixpence No one would have thought of making such an offer to an English loafer, and no English loafer would have had the wit to so neatly earn his emolument. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• On my first experience of him on the platform at South Place Institute he described himself as a “loafer,” and I gave an angry snarl at him in the Reformer , for a loafer was my detestation, and behold! —  Annie Besant
• He lifts a polished black leather loafer, and pauses momentarily on the threshold of dry floor, as if he can sense something wrong. —  SomethingWickedSFandHorrorMagazine#6
• The adults blame him for looking like a loafer, not a middle school student, and he defends himself for just having different fashion taste. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English

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