Words similar to idleness

Example sentences for: idleness

How can you use “idleness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Capitalism is no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks.
Meanwhile, Japan--the world's second-largest economy and a country that by normal criteria ought to have no trouble increasing demand--finds itself stuck in exactly the trap Burnham described: "no longer able to find uses for the available investment funds, which waste in idleness in the account books of the banks."
3. "Real fulfillment in your life will come not from leisure, not from idleness, not from self-indulgence, but rather from striving with all your physical and spiritual might for a worthwhile objective."
And, an essayist argues that the Internet is "a monument to idleness and wasted time," then explains why that's good.