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idle
adjective as in worthless, ineffective
Example Sentences
But after the tourism peak, he said, these boats had been "sitting idle in the bay" and it took them years just to make back the money they spent.
Her furrowed-brow, thinking-hard expression looked not unlike Penelope’s, although Penelope had no way of knowing that, as she was not the sort of person who spent her idle hours staring into mirrors.
That way everyone wasn’t investing in duplicate equipment or machines that would sit idle until the same time next year.
Then, when demand growth slows, commodity production falls, and sometimes underperforming mines are even idled, stabilizing prices and earnings for commodity producers.
They don’t jostle with airport crowds or idle unnecessarily in traffic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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