Idleness Synonyms and Antonyms

Idleness Sentence Examples

• You have spent your life in idleness.

• She had a warlike spirit that preferred trouble to idleness.

• Moreover, Dr Gilly's book (A Visit to the Valleys of Piedmont), chancing to fall into the hands of an officer who had lost his leg at Waterloo, Colonel Beckwith, suggested an object for the energies of one who was 10th at the age of twenty-six to sink into enforced idleness.

• All had to live in absolute poverty, chastity and idleness.

• In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fetes, and he had a project for lessening the number of those devoted to clerical and monastic life, by fixing the age for taking the vows some years later than was then customary.