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Definition of the day : « idles »

As in lag : verb move slowly; delay
As in linger : verb loiter, delay
As in loaf : verb be idle, lazy
As in loiter : verb hang around; stroll
As in loll : verb lay sprawled
As in lounge : verb lie about, waste time
As in moon : verb dream about; desire
As in mope : verb pout, be dejected
As in poke : verb move along slowly
As in rest : verb be calm; sleep
As in slack/slacken : verb do little or nothing; loosen
As in spend : verb use time; occupy
As in stagnate : verb deteriorate by lack of action
As in trifle : verb toy with; mess around
As in vegetate : verb be very passive
As in dillydally : verb dawdle
As in immobilize : verb tie
As in dabble : verb play at; tinker
As in dally : verb dawdle, delay
As in dawdle : verb delay; waste time
As in fool around : verb waste time
As in fritter : verb waste away

Example sentences :

The whole year is lost to him who sleeps or idles away the seed-time.
Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

The longer one idles the more difficult it is to make a start.
Extract from : « Aliens » by William McFee

I really think an Italian idles more complacently and contentedly and picturesquely than any other mortal.
Extract from : « Polly the Pagan » by Isabel Anderson

Here and there idles an immaculate and lynx-eyed customs guard in sailors uniform.
Extract from : « Vistas in Sicily » by Arthur Stanley Riggs

All the idles of Chicago hired by the city hall could not keep control of the snow on the streets.
Extract from : « Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker » by Meletios Golden

Bummer, literally one who sits or idles about; a loafer; one who sponges upon his acquaintances.
Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten

He idles along the street and looks in through the windows at Prints upon the walls.
Extract from : « Marching Men » by Sherwood Anderson

But the angler who idles down the stream takes them as they come, and all his observations have a flavour of surprise in them.
Extract from : « Fisherman's Luck » by Henry van Dyke

Thus he idles away all his time, and all his business with his sences runs a wool-gathering.
Extract from : « The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) » by A. Marsh

Labour is the curse and the qualification, also; and so the dullard who toils shall beat the genius who idles.
Extract from : « The Tenants of Malory » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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