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idle words

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Noun1.idle words - empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
talk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"


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And as to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
It was like the aimless talk of a man pursuing a secret train of thought far removed from the idle words we so often utter only to keep in touch with our fellow beings.
But at the time I had other thoughts, and they lay too deep for idle words, for to me also it was a bitter hour.
 
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