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Definition of Idlest
1. idle [adj] - See also: idle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idlest
Literary usage of Idlest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... The Corfiot peasantry are reputed the idlest of all the Ionian». The olive
receives little or no culture from them, and the vineries alone are laboured ..."
2. How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History by Charles Janeway Stillé (1863)
"... if it be not tlie merest toy, the idlest pastime of our vacant hours, is the
record of the onward march of Humanity towards an end, Where there is no ..."
3. Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged by Walter Baxendale (1888)
"Our hearers use our ministry in much the same manner when they come to it out of
the idlest curiosity, and listen to us as a means of spending a pleasant ..."
4. A Concordance to the Poetical Works of William Cowperby John Neve by John Neve (1887)
"idlest. =»!»« him at the i. time E. iv 76 IDLY. onet, placed ». at their head H.
268 ». down, hands clasped below R. 286 -we waste the breath of praise T. ..."
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