faineant \fay-nay-AWN\
adjective:
1. Doing nothing or given to doing nothing; idle; lazy.
noun:
- A do-nothing; an idle fellow; a sluggard.
Faineant is from French, from Middle French fait, "does" + néant, "nothing."
A faineant government is not the worst government that
-- Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn