We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of idleness in English
Usage of idleness in English
1
Laziness and idleness; evolution and revolution; poverty and misery; character and reputation.
2
Claire's idleness is good for at least one thing, though: gathering information.
3
This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
4
The husband lives in idleness, and has the care of the house.
5
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
6
There must be no more mismanagement; no more quarrelling; no more idleness.
7
She amuses herself half in idleness with the intrigues of the court.
8
Evidently he was standing at the window in idleness, perhaps in trouble.
9
Voluptuous fatigues of labor which render the mattresses of idleness so sweet.
10
It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other.
11
This proceeds in part from idleness and in part from Castilian pride.
12
This attention originated in idleness for which I have a natural talent.
13
Suppose love to be something she had outgrown; the idleness of girls.
14
Mrs. Branston passed the first day of her freedom in luxurious idleness.
15
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
16
Hoodlumism is born of idleness; it is useful energy gone to seed.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Translations for idleness
Spanish
Idleness through the time
Idleness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare