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Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Drone :: Drone (n.) To love in idleness; to do nothing.

Rust :: Rust (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

Forslugge :: Forslugge (v. t.) To lsoe by idleness or slotch.

Truantship :: Truantship (n.) The conduct of a truant; neglect of employment; idleness; truancy.

Inactivity :: Inactivity (n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.

Slewth :: Slewth (n.) Sloth; idleness.

Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Do-nothingness :: Do-nothingness (n.) Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.

Laze :: Laze (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days..

Loaf :: Loaf (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away..

Idlesse :: Idlesse (n.) Idleness.

Parent :: Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..

Idleness :: Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.

Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions..

Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..

Vagabondage :: Vagabondage (n.) The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

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