drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
dronish
-
a word derived from
drone.
Example Sentences
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Drones are but the robbers of the hive; ladies educated to no purpose are but surfeited to a dronish condition on the sweets of literature.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Again: "Thenceforward will men, there labouring hard and honourably, be looked down upon by dronish lordlings."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The rule for terminations may also interfere with this, called "Lowth's;" as in sizable, rising, dronish.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
To plainly tell the truth, we do not rue The sober, godly course that we pursue; But 'tis not we who live the dronish lives, But those who have their husbands or their wives!
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff
The process of learning should be got rid of altogether, being a clumsy, dronish way of acquiring knowledge, and one that tends to keep the brain in a perpetual state of dependence.
From The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst
