workless

Example Sentences

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A report by the think tank found that a child growing up in a workless household was four times more likely to be materially deprived than in a working household.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

These they have found in the relatively workless, but industrious and comparatively moral farming class.

From Working Women of Japan by Gulick, Sidney Lewis