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Meanings of idleness in английском
португальский
inatividade каталонский
ociositat Synonyms
Examples for "idle"
Examples for "idle"
1
Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great.
2
GM announced last week it plans to idle five North American plants.
3
The Alaska no-fly order ended today, but the Virginia-based F-22s remain idle.
4
TCU is idle until a Dec. 16 home date with Indiana State.
5
He's young and healthy, too, and yet is forced to be idle.
1
A police car was outside, with a detention van idling behind it.
2
Bernie waited, engine idling, just in case some stray polyp had escaped.
3
Then there were however many more stood by in that idling car.
4
There is no idling, rather some new-fangled way to deliver electricity cleanly.
5
It was not seemly for them to be idling in the drawing-rooms.
1
Experts on Eisenhower said he is misunderstood as a disengaged, loafing president.
2
The store was a loafing-place for all the ne'er-do-wells in the vicinity.
3
The victory -and yet another day of loafing -was hers.
4
There was none of the loafing stride characteristic of the professional roundsman.
5
And I am running very short of ideas, I have been loafing.
Usage of idleness in английском
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.
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Translations for idleness
португальский
испанский
каталонский
Idleness through the time
Idleness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare