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do–nothing
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of DO-NOTHING
1
a lazy person <the new boss quickly figured out who the do-nothings were and fired them>
Synonyms couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, loafer, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard
Related Words bum, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well; crawler, creeper, dawdler, laggard, putterer, slowpoke, snail, stick-in-the-mud, straggler; clock-watcher, goldbrick, malingerer, shirker, slacker; dallier, lingerer, loiterer, loller, lounger, saunterer; delayer, procrastinator; dropout, quitter
2
an idle worthless person <he indiscriminately dismisses the state legislators as a bunch of do-nothings who live at the taxpayers' expense>
Synonyms bum, derelict, do-nothing, good-for-nothing, no-account, no-good, no-goodnik, slacker, vagrant
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