idleness

How To Use idleness In A Sentence

• I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
• Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. 
• Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
• Boats fostered unusually intimate encounters because of the enforced idleness of travel and because of their physical isolation.
• Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice). 
• I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
• But I saw that fiction--he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous--is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
• The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
• After a period of enforced idleness, she found a new job.
• It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States