Citations:armchair

adjectival

 * 1950, The Listener, volume 43, page 137:
 * The most armchair of strategists can see that a serious and direct military threat to Commonwealth security as a whole in the Far East is improbable just now. Of the three great strategic bases the Commonwealth itself controls two, and the third ...
 * 1984, Drama (journal of the British Theatre Association), page 50:
 * But Sir Michael never appears to have been much more than a very armchair kind of Socialist, even at the time of the People's Convention. The book is not fashionably revealing about himself.
 * , Doug Van Pelt, Rock Stars on God, Volume 2, Lulu.com (ISBN 9781105615672):
 * And it professes to be evil, which I think is a very armchair statement anyway. People are paying big bucks just to wear symbolism, because it's rebellion.
 * 2016, John Greenacre, Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936-46, Helion & Company (ISBN 9781912174393), page 162:
 * As far as I can see it is the Germans who are “tying up important forces” rather than we. We must get round somewhere. However no critic could be more armchair than I am or am likely to be for the next year, possibly for the rest of the war.
 * 2016, Laust Schouenborg, International Institutions in World History, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 9781315409887), page 51:
 * : the sample of research &#39;should make it clear why only the most armchair of archaeologists dispute the existence of social evolution&#39; (Marcus 2008: 254).

probably attributive

 * 2006, Maria Carla Galavotti, Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780306481239), page 235:
 * ... theories seem so distant from empirical corroboration as to bring doubts regarding their place in science; and lastly that there is a connection between the two issues, viz. they both engage more armchair than lab or field work, ...
 * 2016, Martin Money, Sunshine and Ice Volume 10: Glittering Stars, New Generation Publishing (ISBN 9781787191716):
 * Okay, fair enough, I'm more armchair than activist. I don't do placards or meetings. But I've given cash, I spread the word in print and, unlike many, I do bother to vote. It irritates me when people bang on about useless and corrupt politicians but ...