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Significats de idleness en anglès

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State of a person who does not do anything laborious.

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The trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work.

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Examples for "idle"
Examples for "idle"
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Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great.
Wired
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GM announced last week it plans to idle five North American plants.
Reuters
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The Alaska no-fly order ended today, but the Virginia-based F-22s remain idle.
Wired
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TCU is idle until a Dec. 16 home date with Indiana State.
Reuters
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He's young and healthy, too, and yet is forced to be idle.
Helen of troy
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A police car was outside, with a detention van idling behind it.
Layover in dubai
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Bernie waited, engine idling, just in case some stray polyp had escaped.
Anvil Gate
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Then there were however many more stood by in that idling car.
Frozen Heat
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There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
Wired
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It was not seemly for them to be idling in the drawing-rooms.
Halcyone
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Experts on Eisenhower said he is misunderstood as a disengaged, loafing president.
Reuters
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The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
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The victory -and yet another day of loafing -was hers.
The preacher
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There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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And I am running very short of ideas, I have been loafing.
Sunny Slopes

The quality of lacking substance or value.

Ús de idleness en anglès
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Laziness and idleness; evolution and revolution; poverty and misery; character and reputation.
The Measurement of Intelligence / An Explanation of and a Comple...
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Claire's idleness is good for at least one thing, though: gathering information.
Wired
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This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
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The husband lives in idleness, and has the care of the house.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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There must be no more mismanagement; no more quarrelling; no more idleness.
Phineas Redux
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She amuses herself half in idleness with the intrigues of the court.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
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Evidently he was standing at the window in idleness, perhaps in trouble.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Voluptuous fatigues of labor which render the mattresses of idleness so sweet.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
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It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other.
Sense and Sensibility
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This proceeds in part from idleness and in part from Castilian pride.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
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This attention originated in idleness for which I have a natural talent.
Victory: An Island Tale
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Suppose love to be something she had outgrown; the idleness of girls.
Thyrza
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Mrs. Branston passed the first day of her freedom in luxurious idleness.
Fenton's Quest
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Miscellanies
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Hoodlumism is born of idleness; it is useful energy gone to seed.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 / Little J...
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