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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ahyd-ler
Phonetic Transcription : ˈaɪd lər



Définition of idler

Origin :
  • 1530s, agent noun from idle.
  • noun lounger
Example sentences :
  • Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as a dunce and an idler.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • He was like an idler basking in the sun, conscious of nothing but just the warmth and comfort of it.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • A likable chap, this Thorpe, but lazy—just an idler—he had concluded.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various
  • Garry was now the young Laird, and I was but an idler, a burden on the estate.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • Yet Theodore Roosevelt had long since determined not to be an idler.
  • Extract from : « American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • He was called a worthless fool, a regular drunkard and idler.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen
  • Well then, at any rate, you lose three years: for three years you are an idler.
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler.
  • Extract from : « The Innocence of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton
  • I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church.
  • Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various

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