Republicans consistently slander disability recipients as malingerers and layabouts.

Sir Rod told Walker he had "propelled the careers of a bunch of unknown layabouts to the top of the charts, and overnight fame and everything that goes with it".

Katie sees Rachel as little more than a useless layabout waiting to claim the apartment, even though Rachel had been the live-in caregiver before things turned.

She has dealt with her share of layabouts, deadbeats and heartbreakers.

This is a grim continuum on which to exist, skating between the poles of high-achieving hustler and dissolute layabout.