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 

51. While all these words mean "actively engaged or occupied," Busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure

52. The Mormon Church has won acclaim for its welfare program, established so that “the curse of idleness would be done away with.”

53. 15 Idleness not being subsidized and substance not being wasted, more was produced and the general well-being would thus be raised.

54. This is the thrust followed by Saint Gregory the Great and Saint Thomas. For them, laziness or idleness is a result of acedia.

55. The most interesting one concerns the “sons and daughters of acedia,” namely idleness, sleepiness, inappropriateness, unrest, wanderlust, instability of spirit and body, verbosity and curiosity.

56. 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation

57. The Callous palms of the laborer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness

58. An old Greek source comments that 'many people have good natural abilities which are ruined by idleness; on the other hand, sobriety, zeal and perseverance can prevail over indolence'.

59. Action, work, life, labour, movement, energy, exercise, spirit, enterprise, motion, bustle, animation, vigour, hustle, exertion, hurly-burly, liveliness, activeness There is an extraordinary level of Activity in the market. action inertia, inaction, lethargy, inActivity, passivity, idleness, dullness, immobility, torpor, sluggishness, indolence

60. On its way to ultimate wanhope, Accidie produces a whole crop of minor sins, such as idleness, tardiness, lâchesse, coldness, undevotion and “the synne of worldly sorrow, such as is cleped tristitia, that sleth man, as seith seint Poule.” Those who

61. In western societies the association of communication media with current material well-being brings fresh meaning to the Roman maxim panem et circenses, which the Latin poet Juvenal (2) employed to mock the Roman people’s acquiescent idleness and lack of interest in matters of politics.

62. Charlemagne "You nobles you sons of my leading men soft and dandified, trusting in your birth and your wealth, paying no attention to my command and your advancement, you neglected the pursuit of learning and indulged yourselves in the sport of pleasure and idleness"

63. Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so Countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.