idleness
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Some blame technological advancements and deindustrialization for the increase in male idleness, but those barriers are hardly insurmountable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Multiple residents warned of "idleness" among the youth, who face high unemployment.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
Now under state ownership, productivity is low compared to competitors both in the UK and abroad, not due to idleness but because workers don't have the equipment they need to do their job efficiently.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
Save for a throwaway comment Jada makes about Michael and Jacob coming from money, “Zoomers” acts as if the wealth needed to afford all of this idleness and self-therapizing is a given for young people.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
These boys, now, who stood before drugstore windows, before poolrooms, on every street corner, who whistled after her, whose lean bodies fairly rang, it seemed, with idleness, and malice, and frustration.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing idleness
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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