bone-idle
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9.1
- adjective
- Offensive
- Perhaps I found it so idyllic because I was actually bone-idle?
Examples
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The manager was frustrated by how bone-idle the employees were during the busy season.
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You haven't done a hard day's work in your life, you bone-idle bastard.
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I have 18 rooms here, a bone-idle staff eating their heads off, and when you come home from South Africa, - you go straight to your club.
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He's so bone-idle that he refuses to help with any household chores.
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After weeks of doing nothing, I realized how bone-idle I had become.
Synonyms
383
1.0
Not willing to work or make an effort
60
2.8
Not working or being used
7
2.3
Not moving and not showing much physical or mental energy
5
8.4
A person who is lazy and unwilling to work or try
5
8.6
Showing little energy or interest and doing things slowly and carelessly
4
8.0
Not wanting to work or try hard
4
7.2
Not willing to work and often inactive
1
7.9
Not willing to do any work most of the time
1
8.5
Not willing to do a job or make an effort
1
9.9
Unwilling to work or help
Tending to be lazy and preferring to sit or rest instead of move
Feeling too lazy to do anything
Feeling too lazy to do something
Not willing to work or make effort
Antonyms
How Lazy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bone-idle puts bone (used like 'completely', as in bone-dry or bone-tired) together with idle ('not working'), so it paints a strong picture of total laziness. So, bone-idle means very lazy or not wanting to work.