Word: loafered
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...about it." Thus independence is placed at a discount, and we are too much tempted to do only what will please. Roughing a man on his personal and long-established habits never goes far towards removing them. It is only disagreeable and offensive to him. "A. C." mentions a loafer made studious and an absent-minded man reformed by this "system." I very much doubt the existence of such cases...
...knew a person, an incessant loafer, on whom publics and admonitions had little effect, but when the system of roughing was applied to him, he was unable to stand the pressure, and became an industrious student...