désoeuvré

From French désœuvré.

désoeuvré (comparative more désoeuvré, superlative most désoeuvré)

1. Unemployed; unoccupied, idle.
   • 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 43:

     They had been stopped at the dazio coming back, and the young officials there, who seemed impudent and désœuvré, had tried to search their reticules.

désoeuvré (feminine désoeuvrée, masculine plural désoeuvrés, feminine plural désoeuvrées)

1. nonstandard spelling of désœuvré

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

• “désoeuvré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.