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Sloth :: Sloth (n.) Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Loaf :: Loaf (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away..

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

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

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..

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

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