bone idle
adjective
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 MarshallLong before, as a farm-hand, he had been called "bone idle."
Lincoln | Nathaniel Wright StephensonThey're both of them perfectly healthy, and yet they're bone-idle.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold Bennett
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