idleness
Example Sentences
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Pandemic idleness has played a role, too, in the rise of TikTok-inspired shopping.
From New York Times
Experts say idleness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shares the blame with easy access to guns and disputes that too often end with gunfire.
From Seattle Times
Players who hopscotched their way across the 19th-century board encountered squares labeled “honor” or “industry” or, if luck did not go their way, “idleness” and “ruin.”
From Washington Post
Illinois looks for “mental deterioration, physical incapacity, mental illness, developmental disability, gambling, idleness, debauchery, excessive use of intoxicants or drugs.”
From New York Times
Drinking had come to represent a division line between work and relaxation, idleness and stimulation.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
