IDLES Synonyms: 747 Synonyms & Antonyms for IDLES

On this page you'll find 747 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to idles, such as: decrease, diminish, fail, fall off, falter, and slacken.

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If the engine idles too fast with throttle closed, the latter may be adjusted by means of the throttle lever adjusting screw.

I really think an Italian idles more complacently and contentedly and picturesquely than any other mortal.

Thus he idles away all his time, and all his business with his sences runs a wool-gathering.

Labour is the curse and the qualification, also; and so the dullard who toils shall beat the genius who idles.

THE TENANTS OF MALORYJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

It is one of the unwritten laws of Gipsy life that the wife works while the husband idles about the tent.

GIPSY LIFEGEORGE SMITH

But the angler who idles down the stream takes them as they come, and all his observations have a flavour of surprise in them.

Excuse me if I say that, if my nephew idles his time away at Wenderholme Cottage, he will never be a rich man.

WENDERHOLMEPHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON

Here and there idles an immaculate and lynx-eyed customs guard in sailors uniform.

VISTAS IN SICILYARTHUR STANLEY RIGGS

All the idles of Chicago hired by the city hall could not keep control of the snow on the streets.

Bummer, literally one who sits or idles about; a loafer; one who sponges upon his acquaintances.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985