List of antonyms from "potence" to antonyms from "pour oil on"


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Definition of the day : « pottering »

  • As in inactivity : noun inaction
  • As in inertness : noun inaction
  • As in inoperativeness : noun inaction
  • As in idleness : noun laziness, inaction
  • As in mess around : verb fiddle; goof off
  • As in putter : verb dawdle
  • As in trifle : verb toy with; mess around
  • As in twiddle : verb fiddle
  • As in fiddle : verb mess with, tinker
Example sentences :
  • I could manage the little jobs that I'd get—in fact, pottering about at them would do me good.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • He left the room and she heard him pottering in the kitchen.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 » by Various
  • The men were a sculptor, pottering with clay, and his model.
  • Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs
  • Harlan was engaged in that pleasant pastime known as “pottering.”
  • Extract from : « At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern » by Myrtle Reed
  • Then she saw old Lawdor pottering in and out of a room into which she had not yet looked.
  • Extract from : « The Girl from Sunset Ranch » by Amy Bell Marlowe
  • In an humble and pottering way, we are a happy family, James.
  • Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol
  • What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night?
  • Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
  • I am not fit for anything more now than pottering about with my fishing-lines.
  • Extract from : « Lords of the World » by Alfred John Church
  • And what a pottering old rascal Charley was among the stone walls.
  • Extract from : « Ravenshoe » by Henry Kingsley