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Antonyms for featherbed


Grammar : Verb
Spell : feth -er-bed
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛð ərˌbɛd



Definition of featherbed

  • As in slack/slacken : verb do little or nothing; loosen
  • As in goof off : verb avoid work
Example sentences :
  • I have heard of one who used to get into the middle of a featherbed.
  • Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
  • Coming home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the Featherbed Mountain.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • I have a piece of mutton and a featherbed for you at all times; I pray make haste.
  • Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
  • A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • It is, indeed, from no featherbed journey or carpet-knight's tour that Mr Coke has recently returned.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 » by Various
  • A simple strip of broad straw matting, spread over a featherbed, answers the same purpose.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Nothing is more debilitating, than, in warm weather, to sleep with a featherbed pressing round the greater part of the body.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
  • Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.
  • Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various
  • After such a galvanic shock, I could have found, if that had been my need, a featherbed on the Arc de l'toile.
  • Extract from : « Home Fires in France » by Dorothy Canfield
  • She had the featherbed temperament, and soothed masculine nerves exacerbated by the cruel exigencies of art.
  • Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker

Synonyms for featherbed

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