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Significados de idling em inglês

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Having no employment.

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Examples for "idleness"
Examples for "idleness"
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Laziness and idleness; evolution and revolution; poverty and misery; character and reputation.
The Measurement of Intelligence / An Explanation of and a Comple...
2
Claire's idleness is good for at least one thing, though: gathering information.
Wired
3
This general languor is the effect of general luxury, of general idleness.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
4
The husband lives in idleness, and has the care of the house.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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Experts on Eisenhower said he is misunderstood as a disengaged, loafing president.
Reuters
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The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
3
The victory -and yet another day of loafing -was hers.
The preacher
4
There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
5
And I am running very short of ideas, I have been loafing.
Sunny Slopes
Uso de idling em inglês
1
A police car was outside, with a detention van idling behind it.
Layover in dubai
2
Bernie waited, engine idling, just in case some stray polyp had escaped.
Anvil Gate
3
Then there were however many more stood by in that idling car.
Frozen Heat
4
There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
Wired
5
It was not seemly for them to be idling in the drawing-rooms.
Halcyone
6
They paused, idling in the road, leaning out their windows to talk.
Osprey island
7
For a moment they just sat in the idling car, not talking.
Under the dome: a novel
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I thank you, Mr. Glenarm; but I am not much for idling.
The House of a Thousand Candles
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While I have been idling in my bed something dreadful has happened.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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He left the engine idling to run the winch and the hoist.
Under the dome: a novel
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He did not succeed in catching anyone idling or smoking or talking.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
12
Both of them got out while the driver kept the engine idling.
Swan Song
13
The Toyota was idling behind the dugout of a small baseball diamond.
Mysterious Skin
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He was idling in Pall Mall, avoiding a man here and there.
The Vultures
15
They were working three days a week, and idling the other days.
Thrift
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She followed him through the manufactory, which was full of idling workers.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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Translations for idling
português
ociosidade
Idling ao longo do tempo
Idling nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América
Comum
Reino Unido
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