Meanings of idle person in English

An idle dog will be mangy; and how shall an idle person escape?

Oh, nothing whatever; she was a very useless and idle person.

The idle person is no better than a dead one and takes up more room.

I'm not in the least an idle person.

There was not an idle person to be seen, even the children were collecting bricks and slates.

An idle person is the devil's pillow.

The idle person never knows how to make use of odd moments; the busy one always knows how.

A Prigman went with a stick in his hand like an idle person, but stole clothes off hedges.

I am a perfectly idle person.

IDOLATER, a very idle person.

The charge was that she was an idle person and a beggar, and she was regarded as perhaps being unbalanced.

As a fabulously wealthy yet idle person, you must know what an appalling chore it is to find reliable household help these days.

He does not intend keeping any OBER-HOFMARSCHALL, or the like idle person, henceforth; thinks a minimum of the Goldsticks ought to suffice every man.

Of course no idle person can possibly be happy, even for a day, nor she who makes a business of trying to amuse herself.

As in a standing pool, worms and filthy creepers increase, so do evil and corrupt thoughts in an idle person; the soul is contaminated .

But the arm-chair was placed idly away from any accommodation for work, and had, as Mr. Prendergast thought, been recently filled by some idle person.