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Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

Drone :: Drone (n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.

Loaf :: Loaf (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions..

Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..

Lorette :: Lorette (n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided..

Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

Fiddle :: Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..

Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..

Unservice :: Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence.

Parent :: Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..

Inaction :: Inaction (n.) Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..

Rust :: Rust (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

Truantly :: Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

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