Overidle
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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