idleness in English

noun

['i·dle·ness || aɪdlnɪs]

laziness; uselessness, worthlessness, triviality; inactivity

Use "idleness" in a sentence

1. He can't bear idleness.

2. Idleness rusts the mind.

3. Idleness is the greatest prodigality.

4. Idleness makes the wit rust.

5. Idleness enervates the will to succeed.

6. His mother is running to fat because of idleness.

7. & Reset timers after period of idleness

8. Idleness can also cause lustful thoughts.

9. The pleasures of idleness soon cloy.

10. Idleness is the rust of mind. 

11. Idleness turns the edge of wit. 

12. Poverty is the reward of idleness. 

13. The harshness of recent reality disentranced him from his idleness.

14. Learn to love work and avoid idleness.

15. Idleness is the rust of the mind. 

16. 2 Idleness turns the edge of wit. 

17. Avoid idleness and be willing to work hard.

18. Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious. 

19. 1 Idleness is the parent of all vice. 

20. Idleness is a very bad thing for human nature.

21. I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.

22. The sleeping fox catches no poulty, Idleness is the greatest prodigality.

23. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Albert Camus 

24. Mother told her son not to welter in pleasure and idleness.

25. The harshness of recent reality disentranced him from his idleness. Sentencedict.com

26. 25 Idleness is the mother [root] of all evil [sin, vice]. 

27. She fretted about all the bad influences, all the temptations to idleness which surrounded her sons.

28. Antonyms for Assiduities include carelessness, disregard, idleness, ignorance, indolence, laziness, neglect and negligence

29. I will not, like sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.

30. The closure of the large factory made many workers live in idleness.

31. They were condemned to spend a fortnight of idleness at that lonely island.

32. Students studying for final examinations yearn for the Elysian idleness of the summer vacation.

33. Antonyms for Briskness include inactivity, lifelessness, lethargy, laziness, idleness, indifference, apathy, dullness, indolence and carelessness

34. 26 Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice). 

35. Antonyms for Assiduity include carelessness, disregard, idleness, ignorance, indolence, laziness, neglect, negligence, apathy and lethargy

36. Being now free from all restraint, his life was one of idleness and dissipation.

37. I will not, like a sluggard, wear out my youth in idleness at home.

38. 25 The school boy took it ill that the teacher reproved him for idleness.

39. HOWE Both idleness and Alienating the gifts of God, are a robbing him of his own

40. Acedia became a part of sadness and its aspect of laziness or unhealthy idleness was stressed.

41. All of this helps us understand why acedia is associated with sorrow, laziness or idleness, and envy.

42. 17 Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. Benjamin Franklin 

43. By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

44. Idleness can make us lazy and induce us to become “a busybody in other people’s matters.” —1 Pet.

45. 7 Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire 

46. Any other author and I might overlook the fact but now he has augmented his idleness with bad taste.

47. Everyone contributes something to the common stock, and as we are unacquainted with idleness, we have no beggars.

48. 5 They were old gentry, tolerated because they were permanently in decline and had fallen prey to drink and idleness.

49. Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness.

50. Life likes the diligence of hardworking people. Life dislikes to the idleness of lazy people. Dr T.P.Chia