Overidle

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively idle.

    "The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother."

Example

More examples

"The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother."

Etymology

From over- + idle.

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