Idleness

//ˈaɪdəlnəs//

"Idleness" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Sooner or later, you will regret your idleness.

Work is preferable to idleness.

That is a mere excuse for idleness.

The failure is due to his idleness.

I cannot put up with his idleness any longer.

The failure resulted from his idleness.

Idleness often accounts for poverty.

If it were not for his idleness, he would be a nice fellow.

Idleness leads to failure.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]

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