Meanings of sheer idleness in anglès

And yet it must not be thought that the outcast spent his time in sheer idleness.

It gave him much trouble, and Miss Marks, who thought it sheer idleness, was vociferous in objection.

Wandering up and down from sheer idleness.

As a crowd seemed to be gathering about the wooden railway station, we joined it in sheer idleness.

The answer undoubtedly is, that nobody goes to a Summer School who could get refreshment through sheer idleness.

After breakfast Old Mizzou, as usual, went out to feed the horses, and Bennington, through sheer idleness, accompanied him.

I strayed through folding doors into the next room and stood, in sheer idleness of mind, looking at a cuckoo clock.

Wages weekly dropping, and just work enough to hinder sheer idleness; that sort of thing keeps the people in very humble trim.

As was the case for much of 2015, Andrea Pirlo was defensively negligent, allowing runners to brush past him in sheer idleness.

The Hindoo girl, therefore, spends the ten first years of her life in sheer idleness, immured in the house of her father.

For a child Edgar's age to be making trials at writing poetry Mr. Allan regarded as sheer idleness, to be promptly suppressed.

I can't give a year, or anything like a year, to what, so far as I am concerned, will be sheer idleness.

To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.

He even went so far as to play his dangerous game out of sheer idleness, or theatricality, to discover the extent of his power.

New South Wales might, he thought, be a good country for work, but did not seem to offer much amusement beyond sheer idleness, and brandy-and-water.

What is the matter with you is just what is the matter with me-sheeridleness.