Idling
['aɪdl]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Idle
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- You cannot seriously wish me to stay idling at home all day? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Don't your horses want feeding, or your reddlebags want mending, or don't you want to find buyers for your goods, that you stay idling here like this? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That is a very foolish trick, Fanny, to be idling away all the evening upon a sofa. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It-can't-be, muttered Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and idling his glass (which fortunately was a small one) again. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Strange that such a piece of idling should have seemed an important errand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We sailed, and from that hour all idling ceased. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Wade