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

Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

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

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..

Slewth :: Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.

Pansy :: Pansy (n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names..

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

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

Forslugge :: Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch.

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

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..

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

Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.

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

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness..

Do-nothingness :: Do-nothingness (n.) Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.

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

Truantship :: Truantship (n.) The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.

Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..

Idleness :: Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

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