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Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Indolence :: Indolence (n.) The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity..

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

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

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

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

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