bone idle


adjective
  1. very idle; extremely lazy

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How to use bone idle in a sentence

  • I don't know why he should have wanted a curate at all, except that he's so bone-idle, and I'm sure he can't afford one.

    The Eldest Son | Archibald Marshall
  • Long before, as a farm-hand, he had been called "bone idle."

    Lincoln | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
  • They're both of them perfectly healthy, and yet they're bone-idle.

    Hilda Lessways | Arnold Bennett