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Adj.

bone-idle - constitutionally lazy or idle

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

idle - not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"

Translations

bone-idle

[ˌbəʊnˈaɪdl] ADJ → gandul, holgazán, flojo (LAm)

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MR Clayton Jones (WM letters, August 29) described the 10 young people begging for money while he was sitting in the al fresco part of a restaurant in the capital of Wales as "the bone-idle", which I believe is an inaccurate description of those forced to beg for money or steal food due to hunger; I would describe them as the locked out.

People locked out due to Universal Credit

But if that's what it takes to make Mrs May's bone-idle, Brexitobsessed, boss-backing, ignorant, supercilious ministers do the job we pay them to do, then so be it.

Rail dispute needs political intervention

WHEN are the Government going to realise the welfare bill is so high because they make it too easy for bone-idle scroungers to claim benefits?

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Michelle Madden No matter whether the tip was open 24/7 or collections were free from the council, you will never stop these bone-idle, lazy and inconsiderate people from fly-tipping.

Piles of rubbish dumped on a Welsh beauty spot - next to a sign warning fly-tippers they could be fined PS50,000; WEBCHAT

The bone-idle Bulgar is a free agent and that's good news for him because it means he doesn't have to summon the energy to slap in a transfer request.

BONE-IDLE BERBA IS NO VILLA IDOL; with sports betting's top tipster DEREK MCGOVERN E-MAIL: betsguru@aol.com

However most recently we were greeted with an Overflow Parking Area sign which directed drivers onto The Braid and those too bone-idle to walk saw their opportunity and parked as close as they could to the pedestrian bridge access to the High Street.

Leave Amble's Braid alone; Views of the North

He brands The Beatles puerile and calls for organised working class riots against "the free-loading bone-idle middle classes".

THE RANTINGS OF IAN BRADY; Celebs like Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans need to be culled...the workers should riot in the streets of the bone-idle middle classes... and The Beatles were puerile

Both Kyle and Widdecombe succeeded in portraying the scrounger as a bone-idle buffoon.

Scrounger played the system

Faced with bone-idle players would he feather-bed them for life?

Fears for the future; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk

Iain Duncan Smith apparently subscribes to the same misguided theory that everyone on benefits is a bone-idle scrounger.

We're not all scr oungers; Your shout

They will want their dough in its entirety and if they don't get it up front they'll just sit on their bone-idle backsides and take it in weekly instalments with no effort in return.

Gordon Waddell: Eck won't get shot of duds easily