- a loose tongue.
- an idle laborer.
- an idle mind.
- baseless gossip.
- dead capital.
- He slugged in bed all morning.
- idle carpenters.
- idle drifters.
- idle fears.
- idle funds.
- idle hands.
- idle pleasure.
- idle talk.
- jobless transients.
- light banter.
- light idle chatter.
- many people in the area were out of work.
- the allegations proved groundless.
- the car engine was running at idle.
- the engine is idling.
- the idle rich.
- the machinery sat idle during the strike.
- The old man sat and stagnated on his porch.
- unfounded suspicions.
- unwarranted jealousy.