idleness

IPA: ˈaɪdʌɫnʌs

Examples of "idleness" in Sentences

They may produce what they call idleness now, and a great deal of vexation and suffering.
In other words, no individual should be wasted in idleness if they wish to be employed into the safety net program.
There we all clambered out to stretch cramped muscles and make a fire to cook the hippo's tongue, Coutlass cursing us for letting what he called idleness come between us and revenge.
There is a grossness in the conceptions of my countrymen; they will not be convinced that any good thing may consist with what they call idleness; they can anticipate nothing but evil of a young man who neither studies physic, law, nor gospel, nor opens a store, nor takes to farming, but manifests an incomprehensible disposition to be satisfied with what his father left him.