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fay-nay-AWNT
noun, adjective
a shiftless or idle person; a lazy or slothful person; a puppet ruler or ineffectual ruler
1888Robert Elsmere...the old and fainéant rector of the parish church…1907A Fountain SealedPapa would rather have had Eddy work on the roads for his bread than turn him into a fainéant .'1938Geneva...Mr Winston Churchill, as a man of action, had to be substituted for the fainéants when the war was resumed…Labels: Anne Douglas Sedgwick, George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Humphry Ward
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