Usage of "idle words"

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Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.

Uso de idle words em inglês

But idle words, in the sense of innocent amusement, are not vicious. 
 Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter... 

Yours were no idle words; and I can never forget them. 
 The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring 

And they took care not to spoil it with idle words. 
 The Neverending Story 

None know better than the priests how to speak idle words to women. 
 Between Whiles 

Of course I took no heed of idle words like these. 
 John Halifax, Gentleman 

It has simply become a silly habit, this jotting down of idle words. 
 Sweetapple Cove 

Let go the youth's hand, and into the saddle without more idle words. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

Those words, the chief of sinners, were but idle words in Paul's mouth. 
 Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) 

What I require of you is, not idle words, but liberty. 
 The Living Link: A Novel 

Are the idle words of a jealous child to set friends at variance? 
 The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H... 

But her woman's intuition had gone far below his idle words. 
 The Cow Puncher 

Which of us has not idle words to recall, flippant jokes to regret? 
 Roundabout Papers 

Say: Woe betide you for the idle words that proceed from your mouths! 
 The Summons of the Lord of Hosts 

Joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, love, friendship, longing, despair, are idle words to them. 
 The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 

Mr. Trimm wasn't in the habit of letting men deceive him with idle words. 
 The Escape of Mr. Trimm / His Plight and other Plights 

But Valentine seemed painfully struck by the almost idle words. 
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