Synonym: at leisure, futile, groundless, inactive, lazy, unfounded, unoccupied, unwarranted, useless, vain, worthless. Antonym: diligent, industrious. Similar words: sidle, rapidly, timidly, lucidly, languidly, handle, addle, middle. Meaning: ['aɪdl] 
n. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling. v. 1. run disconnected or idle 2. be idle; exist in a changeless situation. adj. 1. not in action or at work 2. without a basis in reason or fact 3. not in active use 4. silly or trivial 5. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility 6. not yielding a return 7. not having a job.
n. the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling. v. 1. run disconnected or idle 2. be idle; exist in a changeless situation. adj. 1. not in action or at work 2. without a basis in reason or fact 3. not in active use 4. silly or trivial 5. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility 6. not yielding a return 7. not having a job. 
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151. As we leave, I glance around to see if anyone shows more than idle curiosity.
152. It has become finally clear that packing largely destitute and idle people into public housing creates a rotten place to live.
153. Certainly the new actor should never remain idle but create chances wherever possible.
154. It should be remembered that it is not idle curiosity that prompts them.
155. With government number-crunchers idle so long, no one is sure just how great the damage will be.sentencedict.com
156. At the time I almost lived up to my nickname, Bone - close to Tone, and closer still to bone idle.
157. The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.
158. The bow dropped and the boat gurgled in idle and coasted to a stop at a nameless address.
159. For four days, authorities struggled with uncooperative weather conditions that kept divers idle and with equipment problems.
160. Exactly when we might end our voyage was largely a matter of idle speculation.
161. They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.
162. And, in an idle moment, he invented a method for lining women's hat-boxes!
163. The restrictive practices of stubborn unions keep the new colour-printing presses idle.
164. It regarded them as mere jetsam, to be banished from the world like delinquents or the incorrigibly idle.
165. Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.
166. The new machines may sit idle for months until they have been paid for.
167. As Tallis ran towards him she thought, with idle horror, that he looked as if he was praying.
168. Forgotten, or decided it had been idle talk, a vow impossible to realise.
169. She wished she could convince herself that what he'd said had merely been an idle threat.
170. Expansion of the money supply in these circumstances may lead to no additional expenditure, only additional idle balances.
171. As a family the Hendrys didn't hold with interrupting the serious business of eating with idle chatter.
172. The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.
173. She had no time for idle gossip as she had to do all the work herself.
174. It was no place for idle talk then: there was too much action for gossip.
175. It was only from idle curiosity that she went into Nannie's room.
176. The more elastic the liquidity preference curve, the more idle balances will fall.
177. Doctors are not idle men, Miss Thorne, and you are a fit woman.
178. For autorotation practice, the throttle will be set to give a safe idle speed.
179. That leaves Mr Hamed and his four workers idle much of the time, but they are fortunate compared to others.
180. It dawned on me that no one seemed to be idle.
More similar words: sidle, rapidly, timidly, lucidly, languidly, handle, addle, middle, kindle, meddle, peddle, puddle, hurdle, needle, bundle, swindle, endless, handlebar, befuddle, a bundle of, befuddled, regardless, huddle together, middle-class, irregardless, regardless of, middle ground.