Portuguese
ociosidade Catalan
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Laziness and idleness; evolution and revolution; poverty and misery; character and reputation.
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Claire's idleness is good for at least one thing, though: gathering information.
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This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
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The husband lives in idleness, and has the care of the house.
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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A police car was outside, with a detention van idling behind it.
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Bernie waited, engine idling, just in case some stray polyp had escaped.
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Then there were however many more stood by in that idling car.
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There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
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It was not seemly for them to be idling in the drawing-rooms.
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Experts on Eisenhower said he is misunderstood as a disengaged, loafing president.
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The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
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The victory -and yet another day of loafing -was hers.
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There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman.
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And I am running very short of ideas, I have been loafing.
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They were not merely loafing in the pure evening air, but hurrying.
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Broadway was full of loafing thespians in search of next season engagements.
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But he pictured loafing with Paul Riesling beside a lake in Maine.
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He used to keep the ship loafing at sea for inscrutable reasons.
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About the usual number that come loafing in to spend the night.
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I should have gone before, as no doubt the men are loafing.
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One evening towards the end of February, 'Arry was loafing about Brixton.
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The loafing was destined to have character, perhaps to change a character.
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Broadway was full of loafing thespians in search of next season's engagements.
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I called to Hans, who was loafing about outside, and said quietly:
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When beavers are busy they are very busy, and tolerate no loafing.
