Clues for the word "IDLENESS"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 68 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on November 28, 2025.
Definition of idleness
- n. - The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.
Referring Clues
- "The mother of corruption": Montaigne
- Being unemployed
- Lethargy
- Couch potato's condition
- Lazy quality
- Inaction
- "The mother of corruption," according to Montaigne
- Inactivity
- Layabout's forte
- Sloth
- Little man's insides corrupted by sloth?
- Sloth - there may be love in it
- Sloth in den lies around a pole
- Leisure industry's capital: endless resorts
- See 12
- Indolence
- Lack of employment gives one endless recreation
- Lid off? It can make sense of unemployment
- Single out endless lack of activity
- I'd take on student having seen disastrous results ending in laziness
- Hero rumoured to take on head for doing nothing
- Head lied about preceding unemployment
- I misinterpreted endless inaction
- Unravelling lies, ends inactivity
- Pansy's love in it - nothing doing?
- Laziness
- Lack of work
- Do-nothing state
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - November 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 21, 2024
- Your Life Choices - February 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - February 11, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 01, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 01, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 13, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 27, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 28, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 23, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - January 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 26, 2022
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