Meanings of absolute idleness in English

Perhaps it is the absolute idleness of the community that makes it so interesting.

It was the start of a month of absolute idleness.

But the notion of the absolute idleness of wealth he could very well conceive.

He would, he thought, find it quite impossible to live in absolute idleness at the rectory.

The punishment of indolence is absolute idleness.

One symptom which disquieted the Marquise above all was the absolute idleness to which he now abandoned himself.

Many of their parents refuse them shelter, the streets become their home; absolute idleness supervenes; their day is past.

And this absolute idleness!

Imagine a strong, active, and intelligent being, of exceptionally energetic temperament, condemned to spend twenty-four hours a day in absolute idleness!

You cannot think that I can be happy to hear you complaining of headache every day,-makingit an excuse for absolute idleness.

I promised you a pension; and, not wishing to maintain you in absolute idleness, I lay upon you these absurd and trifling duties.

The desire for wealth as a means of living in absolute idleness is probably confined, as a fact, in all countries to a few.

George Vavasor had many faults, but idleness-absoluteidleness-wasnot one of them.

"So for three years you have passed your days in absolute idleness."

Absolute idleness was positively painful to him; occupation of some sort he must have, and to the very end he had and enjoyed it.