Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective disinclined to work or exertion.
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- adjective UK, idiomatic utterly
lazy
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- adjective constitutionally lazy or idle
Etymologies
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Examples
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Scooby et al always start adventures doing the most pointless of journeys in the Mystery Machine van – they are petrol-guzzling, bone-idle slackers.
Kelis reveals the face of casual British racism | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Victimhood as comfort blanket, an excuse for bone-idle black kids, who don't seem to have noticed that Asian children tend to do pretty well in British schools?
It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up Barbara Ellen 2010
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Doesnt this just encourage other bone-idle feckless families?
The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Doesnt this just encourage other bone-idle feckless families?
The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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His portrayal of Stan Butler did much to perpetuate the image of the 1970s worker as a bone-idle work-dodger; we forget today just how enormously popular On the Buses was.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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The real 'enemies of British society' are the workshy and bone-idle white working class, with their massive dependence on state benefits, ignorance, casual violence, fecundity and alcoholism.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The real 'enemies of British society' are the workshy and bone-idle white working class, with their massive dependence on state benefits, ignorance, casual violence, fecundity and alcoholism.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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His portrayal of Stan Butler did much to perpetuate the image of the 1970s worker as a bone-idle work-dodger; we forget today just how enormously popular On the Buses was.
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You are right, the consensus among run-of-the-mill bone-idle journalists is that Wakefield has been proved wrong.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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So, are mummy's boy's bone-idle, broke or basket cases?
Juliet Linley: Mummy's Boys: Bone-Idle, Broke or Basket Cases? 2009
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