Examples of 'idleness' in a sentence

Meaning of "idleness"

Idleness is a noun referring to the state of being inactive, lazy, or without work or purpose
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  • The state of being idle; inactivity.
  • The state of being indolent; indolence.
  • Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.

How to use "idleness" in a sentence

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Combatting idleness and joblessness among youth.
Distressingly little time for sloth or idleness.
Luck and idleness gave me my first chance.
The failure resulted from his idleness.
This carefree idleness is bad for you.
Idleness allows us too much time to think.
Her enforced idleness did not last long.
Idleness will get you in the end.
The paradise of idleness would be no heaven to him.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
How we can lose idleness and relearn it.
Idleness seems to be the last accomplishment of civilization.
Our moments of idleness are not less sanctified.
Wandering up and down from sheer idleness.
But idleness will make you rot.

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Suffer because of the idleness of their siblings.
True idleness comes only with practice.
Unemployment often leads to idleness and delinquency.
For me idleness would be the cruelest torture.
Your brains have gone soft from idleness.
Avoid idleness and be willing to work hard.
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Specifically the idleness is the problematic point.
Much of the violence stemmed from idleness.
The idleness and uselessness of it at this moment.
And eateth not the bread of idleness.
Rest and idleness bring boredom.
You were not created for a life of idleness.
The party that said idleness is an evil.
In later life he told stories of his idleness.
It is said that idleness is the mother of all vices.
I owed my first chance to luck and idleness.
He said that idleness could destroy a young man.
They squander any surplus in idleness or gambling.
Idleness has always been my worst enemy.
I can not stand neglicence and idleness.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
Our afternoons are not all devoted to idleness.
You know what idleness does to a man.
We can never be saved in inactivity and idleness.
Six months of idleness of debauchery of silence.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
Idleness should is his middle name.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Idleness and carelessness generate worry.
Baganda did not destroy their intelligence by idleness.
Idleness often accounts for poverty.
This day is better to spend in blissful idleness.
Rest and idleness bring tedium.
You are idle because you love idleness.

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