Dictionary English → German: idleness

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edit	NOUN	idleness \| -
	SYNO	faineance \| idleness \| groundlessness ...
	faineance \| idleness groundlessness \| idleness idleness \| idling \| loafing © Princeton University

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idleness [laziness, indolence]

244

Müßiggang {m} [geh.]

78

Trägheit {f}

59

Untätigkeit {f}

38

Beschäftigungslosigkeit {f}

25

Stillstand {m}

idleness [having nothing to do]

18

Däumchendrehen {n} [fig.] [ugs.]

9

Müßigkeit {f} [selten für: Müßiggang]

2 Words

enforced idleness

erzwungene Untätigkeit {f}

sweet idleness

süßes Nichtstun {n}

3 Words

condemned to idleness {adj} {past-p} {adv} [postpos.]

zum Nichtstun verdammt

ind. cost {sg} of idleness

Stillstandskosten {pl}

days of idleness

faule Tage {pl}

days of idleness

Tage {pl} des Müßiggangs

4 Words

to abandon oneself to idleness

sich^Akk. dem Müßiggang hingeben [geh.]

a life in idleness

ein müßiges Leben {n}

5+ Words

proverb Idleness is the beginning of all vice.

Müßiggang ist aller Laster Anfang.

proverb Idleness is the parent of the root of all evil.

Müßiggang ist aller Laster Anfang.

bibl. to eat the bread of idleness

das Brot der Faulheit essen [Elberfelder et al.]

bibl. to eat the bread of idleness [fig.] [archaic]

ein faules Leben führen

Fiction (Literature and Film)

lit. F Love in Idleness [Terence Rattigan]

Liebe in Müßiggang

Taxa/Species (Animals, Plants, Fungi)

bot. T

love-in-idleness [dated]

Stiefmütterchen {n}

bot. T

love-in-idleness [Viola arvensis, syn.: V. tricolor L. subsp. arvensis]

Wildes Stiefmütterchen {n}

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