Goofing Off (Noun)
Meaning
The evasion of work or duty.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- After arriving at the office an hour early, she found most of her coworkers goofing off and checking social media on their phones.
- Their team was penalized in the project because one of the team members spent too much time goofing off and procrastinating on deadlines.
- Although everyone looked like they were diligently working on the spreadsheets, I suspect that several were just goofing off under the guise of researching business projections.
- Given their teacher was a relatively hands-off instructor, a handful of kids from her large art class loved spending each art class period goofing off quietly without disruption.
- Getting rid of extra video game options helped Mark manage goofing off excessively as many projects sat stagnated within near-start timeframe requiring great responsibility within schedule-projects framework and responsibilities associatedmatchCondition