Papers eviscerated leftie disliking work (4)
I believe the answer is:
idle
'disliking work' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'papers eviscerated leftie' is the wordplay.
'papers' becomes 'ID' (short for identification papers).
'eviscerated' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the word is disembowelled of its inside letters).
'leftie' with its middle taken out is 'le'.
'id'+'le'='IDLE'
(Other definitions for idle that I've seen before include "having no effect" , "Disliking work" , "Not used to work" , "Circus entertainer" , "out of a job" .)