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i·dle  (dl)
adj. i·dler, i·dlest
1.
a. Not employed or busy: idle carpenters. See Synonyms at inactive.
b. Avoiding work or employment; lazy: shiftless, idle youth. See Synonyms at lazy.
c. Not in use or operation: idle hands.
2. Lacking substance, value, or basis. See Synonyms at baseless, vain.
v. i·dled, i·dling, i·dles
v.intr.
1. To pass time without working or while avoiding work.
2. To move lazily and without purpose.
3. To run at a slow speed or out of gear. Used of a motor vehicle.
v.tr.
1. To pass (time) without working or while avoiding work; waste: idle the afternoon away.
2. To make or cause to be unemployed or inactive.
3. To cause (a motor, for example) to idle.
n.
1. A state of idling. Used of a motor vehicle: an engine running quietly at idle.
2. A mechanism for regulating the speed at which an engine runs at rest: set the idle higher to keep the motor from stalling.

[Middle English idel, from Old English del.]

idle·ness n.
idler (dlr) n.
idly adv.
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Adv.1.idly - in an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people"

idly
Translations
German idly [ˈaɪdlɪ] idle advuntätig;
(glance) → abwesend

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Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king.
Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro.
When in an hour they crowded into a cab to go home, I strolled idly to my club.
 
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