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pottering
noun as in idleness
Strong matches
noun as in inactivity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in inertness
Strong matches
noun as in inoperativeness
Weak matches
- dawdling
- dilly-dallying
- dormancy
- droning
- goof-off time
- hibernation
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- inertia
- inertness
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- leisure
- lethargy
- loafing
- loitering
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- shiftlessness
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stagnation
- stupor
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- torpidity
- torpor
- trifling
- truancy
- unemployment
- vegetating
Example Sentences
That was when the Talbot County branch of the NAACP, led by Potter, first petitioned the county council to have the monument removed.
It’s not so much the existence of the monument that his group opposes, Potter said recently, but its location.
The House adopted Potter’s resolution and set up an 11-man committee consisting of Democrats and anti-Hayes Republicans.
So a team led by Potter began reaching out to small pockets of the Infatuation’s newsletter subscribers to gauge their interest in different kinds of services, ranging from virtual classes to curated grocery boxes.
Potter said that she thinks Outpost could expand into Chicago and Los Angeles next.
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Look here: you're pottering about this country just now; just count how many houses you find with the name 'Hafod Unos.'
Wollaston and I spent most of the afternoon pottering round and collecting seeds of plants of different kinds.
I left the pottering Cather to put ship-shape his cabin (as he now called it) for himself––a rainy-day occupation for aliens.
Midway of the main bridge a handful of French engineers were pottering away, rather leisurely, I thought, at some job or other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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