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 Translation for 'idleness' from English to Czech
NOUN   idleness | -
SYNO faineance | groundlessness | idleness | ...
idleness {noun}zahálka {f}
idleness {noun}zahálčivost {f}
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Translation for 'idleness' from English to Czech

idleness {noun}
zahálka {f}

zahálčivost {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Anticipatory scheduling overcomes deceptive idleness by pausing for a short time (a few milliseconds) after a read operation in "anticipation" of another close-by read requests.
  • The Idler says this request shows that the writer "is yet but in the rudiments of idleness, and has attained neither the practice nor theory of wasting life."
  • Salmacis (...) was an atypical Naiad nymph of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.
  • The name refers to its first bellringer, Giovanni di Balduccio, nicknamed "Mangiaguadagni" (‘Profit eater’) either for his spendthrift tendency, idleness or gluttony.
  • Idle generally refers to idleness, a lack of motion or energy.

  • Involuntary enforced idleness is the punishment used for lazy or slacking workers in zero-hour contracts.
  • Prison reformists often argue that enforced idleness in prison helps neither those inside nor outside.
  • O’Connor has also written on the subject of idleness in his 2018 book of the same name, which provided a comparative analysis of the philosophy of idleness.
  • The main French army's combat effectiveness had been further reduced by indiscipline and idleness.
  • The investigation of the issues mentioned in the complaint cannot be done by the central or local self-governing agency or their officials which decisions or acts (idleness) are being appealed.

  • "Dolce far niente" (literally “sweet doing nothing, sweet idleness”) is an Italian saying.
  • After the death of his mother, Winter spent his “time in idleness and childish dissipation” until at eight years he was admitted into the charity school of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Holborn.
  • The company forbade swearing, drunkenness or profaning the Sabbath and warned against the evils of idleness.
  • In a customary response of thanks Pryor expressed his gratitude and begged forgiveness for the present idleness within the regiment.
  • The most recent works are colorful speculations in and on idleness.

  • This was due to “three things in which an average pauper delights, - dirt, disorder, and idleness”.
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