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fain |
fainéant |
fainéant deity |
faineance |
faineancy |
faineant
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| faint praise
| faint-hearted
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| faintheartedness
faineant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective faineant has 1 sense
- faineant(s = adj.all) indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy - 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" Derived form noun faineance1
CIDE DICTIONARY
faineant, a. [F.; fait he does + néant nothing.].
Doing nothing; shiftless; disinclined to work or exertion. [1913 Webster]
faineant, n.
A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
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