idle
adjective
not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing.
idlest
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superlativeof idle.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Shettleston is one of Britain’s poorest, idlest and sickest places; at 64, male life expectancy is 15 years below the national average and falling.
From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014
On the idlest previous day in the history of the bureau, Feb. 25, 1932, there had been 56 licenses issued.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Walpole's day the English clergy were the idlest and the most lifeless in the world.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by John Richard Green
The inquiries into Milton's indebtedness to forerunners strike me as among the idlest inquiries of the kind—which is saying a great deal.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
There was the usual result of tittle-tattle, especially among the idlest and most numerous members of the community.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
