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  • noun Plural form of faineant.

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Examples

  • Je n'ai pas joué les faineants pendant 4 ans, je me leve tous les jours a 8h00 mais c vrai que ce n'est pas pareil que si j'avais un rythme de vie bien definie par un emploi du temps specifique!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • C'est connu, si les faineants mettaient autant d'energie dans leur boulot que dans les recherches qu'ils font pour ne pas travailler ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • I've been a horrible _faineant_, the last of _faineants_.

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • The effect of this immurement was soon visible; the Manchu rule, which was emphatically a rule of the sword, was rapidly so weakened that the emperors became no more than rois faineants at the mercy of their ministers.

    The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

  • I can endure gossip for old people who cannot employ themselves, and must talk, and have nothing to talk of but their neighbours; but only think of those wretched faineants who go chattering on, wasting their own time and other people's, doing no good on the face of the earth, and a great deal of harm. '

    Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Its chiefs, the successive occupants of the throne, never sank into mere weaklings or faineants, never shut themselves up in their seraglios, or ceased to take a leading part, alike in civil broils, and in struggles with foreign rivals.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • The hero carries home the trophy of his prowess [37], and his wife, springing from her tent, utters a long shrill scream of joy, a preliminary to boasting of her man's valour, and bitterly taunting the other possessors of _noirs faineants_: the derided ladies abuse their lords with peculiar virulence, and the lords fall into paroxysms of envy, hatred, and malice.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Zoubor: "ces types sont des blablateux congenitaux et des faineants, sinon des ..."

    ExtremeCentre.org 2008

  • Zoubor: "ces types sont des blablateux congenitaux et des faineants, sinon des ..."

    ExtremeCentre.org 2008

  • The hero carries home the trophy of his prowess37, and his wife, springing from her tent, utters a long shrill scream of joy, a preliminary to boasting of her man’s valour, and bitterly taunting the other possessors of noirs faineants: the derided ladies abuse their lords with peculiar virulence, and the lords fall into paroxysms of envy, hatred, and malice.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

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