Don't make oneself useful

Usage examples of loiter.

These people also he deemed well before the world, for they were well clad and buxom, and made no great haste as they went, but looked about them as though they deemed the world worth looking at, and as if they had no fear either of a blow or a hard word for loitering.

Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.

When I reached the ancient capital of the world, I possessed only seven paoli, and consequently I did not loiter about.

I strongly suspected that Margot had cloistered herself within the spun-sugar confines of her home, so I retreated to the Embarcadero Center and loitered on the level where the pedestrian walkway linked it to the condominium complex.

I was assured that the interior of the country was more inviting, and I was advised to lose no time in getting on my land, for it had been observed, that more than one emigrant who had lost his time in loitering over the town, gaping and staring about, and fretting and complaining because all things did not come easy to his hand, had soon got rid of so much of his money, as not to have enough left to establish himself and carry him through the first year.

Failsafe done for loitering outside that shop Gluck pinched in Chelsea.

Loitering about there, Sergeant Hoong came to a large public bathhouse.

The tribe was still loitering about the clearing where stood the hut that Tarzan and Bertha Kircher had built.

Above the swept marble stair, the copper-leafed doors of the council hall stood closed and latched behind guards in red-and-gold livery who held back the crowding, raucous throng which loitered to stare and speculate.

He decided not to press his luck by loitering at the terminal any longer.

With a little business and a good deal of loitering, waiting upon the whim of his pen, Irving passed the weary months of the war.

I could not but share in the enthusiasm of those about me, when loitering near the very ground sacred to the inspiration.

We three have waited here for you, as instructed, taking turns at loitering close by this fountain.

Again one of the sprites climbed to the altitude of the airship, loitering for a few moments on fanning wings before whipping off to rejoin the others.

One or two servitors stalked through the crowd, and occasionally a golden float-cam would bob through the air, loitering over a scene of interest like a single detached eyeball.