idleness

Most will spend their three years behind bars in forced idleness.

In his speech Monday morning, the president tried to warn his fellow Washingtonians against idleness.

Indeed, idleness, for Russell, is a state one reaches by escaping the encompassing world.

Competing stores needlessly occupy the time of hundreds of thousands of employees in a mixture of idleness and industry.

But when all is said about the horror of idleness the broad fact remains that the hours of work are too long.

The boys have his presence, not only as a check to idleness or noise, but as an encouragement to industry.

I in these speculations will consumeMy idleness; because the truth, when known,Though sad, has yet its charms.

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.