Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that is worthless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A good-for-nothing, worthless fellow; a scamp.
- Worthless; wasteful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.
- adjective Wasteful; slothful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
worthless or despicable person. - adjective
Worthless ;wasteful .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“A murrain on thee, thou lazy losel!” said Rudolph — “Thou art the only sluggard of thy kyn.”
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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And each losel receives him with bark and with bite:
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Knowing yet right well Jove, what a losel is he.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Knowing yet right well Jove, what a losel is he.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration; and the office of constable fell into such decay that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years.
Washington Irving 2004
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses 2003
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But its happiest effect was that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration, and the office of constable fell into such decay that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Years ago there was a young Bilkins, one Pendexter Bilkins -- a sad losel, we fear -- who ran away to try his fortunes before the mast, and fell overboard in a gale off Hatteras.
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Wasn't that "lewd losel" told by the Kentish Archbishop how useful such music might be say if a pilgrim struck his toe on a stone? '
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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But its happiest effect was that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration; and the office of constable fell into such decay that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
whichbe commented on the word losel
A worthless person.
May 12, 2008
milosrdenstvi commented on the word losel
"But one sad losel soils a name for aye..."
-- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
November 20, 2009
qms commented on the word losel
His phony compassionate pose'll
Be seen as a feeble proposal,
The work of a loser,
A clumsy fake newser,
A "leader" who's only a losel.
September 10, 2017
bilby commented on the word losel
There are no definitions, comments nor examples on qhalur so I have no idea how the 'same context' bot selects it.
September 11, 2017