loaferish

Part of the buildings have been burned down, and three or four loaferish looking fellows seem to live in an old shake down there.

Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane Roy Rockwood

Susan's charms of person and manners so wrought upon him that, during the exchange of preliminary questions and answers, he slowly took down first one foot then the other, and readjusted his once muscular but now loose and pudgy body into a less loaferish posture.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

Like a fat, tawdry moth in his garments of soiled pink, a babu loitered past, with never a sidelong glance for the loaferish figure in the shadowed doorway; and the latter seemed himself absorbed in the family of Eurasians who were shrilly squabbling with the keeper of a vegetable-stall adjacent.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

He would always be common and loaferish, and it wouldn't make any difference if he did, he would never be cultured no matter how much education he had.

The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

Susan's charms of person and manners so wrought upon him that, during the exchange of preliminary questions and answers, he slowly took down first one foot then the other, and readjusted his once muscular but now loose and pudgy body into a less loaferish posture.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

Now and again a loaferish policeman is seen, nearly always leaning against a building or finding support from the angle of a deep-set door.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

They go and stand beside the bier, giving a curious touch of solemnity to a scene composed of the four pleasant ruffians in the loaferish postures which they have learned as facchini waiting for jobs; of the two boys with inattentive grins, and of the priest with wandering eyes, kneeling behind them.

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

I was in a more loaferish mood than usual, and thought I might as well ride to town to pass the time.

The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales John Charles Dent 1864

There were a dozen rough, loaferish looking men, whiling away their time upon the wharf; but as they confined themselves to simply asking a few questions as to what part of the world we came from, and received satisfactory answers, they soon lost all interest in us, and began to speculate what time the steamer would arrive.

The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859