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Meanings of mere idleness in English

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Usage of mere idleness in English
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I do not walk abroad like a king-errant in mere idleness of mind.
If I Were King
2
I cannot believe you have spent all your life in mere idleness and pleasure.
The Mystery of Cloomber
3
From mere idleness the tramp soon finds that petty thieving is an easy way to get along.
The High School Boys' Training Hike
4
He watched him in mere idleness while waiting for the girl to bring the supper Donald had ordered.
The Northern Iron
5
She well knew the mischievous, gossiping propensities of country people, who, from mere idleness, indulge in limitless scandal.
File No. 113
6
After a lapse of some months, spent at home in mere idleness, I found myself a student at Eton.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
7
But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before-thatthe soul has no previous existence.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
8
Holiday philosophy is mere idleness.
Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
9
Moreover, in general, it will perhaps be found that persons devoted to mere literature commonly become devoted to mere idleness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
10
Possibly he was still "reading hugely," but the greater likelihood was that he had fallen into mere idleness.
The Emancipated
11
But what I do, and ever shall regret, is the time which, while young, I lost in mere idleness, and in doing nothing.
Letters to His Son, 1748 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
12
It is dangerous, sir, believe me, to tamper thus with earnest human passions, out of your own mere idleness, and for your sport.
The Blithedale Romance
13
At least, if I could-butI shall come to all that by and by, and it is mere idleness to go on about it now.
Bleak House
14
Mere idleness is not recreation; and many people use their leisure in DISSIPATION instead of in recreation.
Community Civics and Rural Life
15
"But they may rob from love of mischief, of excitement, of excess, from mere idleness, or old habits," said L'Isle.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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'Next to mere idleness (said he,) I think knotting is to be reckoned in the scale of insignificance; though I once attempted to learn knotting.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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