Allowing for the chance accessions of which any crowd is morally sure in a town where there must always be a large number of idle and profligate persons, one and the same mob was at both places.

According to one report, he "fell to work with his own hands, and thereby so encouraged the rest that there was not an idle person to be found in the whole plantation."

In describing a person or machine, idle means the act of nothing or no work (for example: "John Smith is an idle person").

"Well, these idle persons use up goods that the workers might otherwise enjoy."

Although Murra was careful to preserve her public image of perfect, unstriving self-control, she was not at all an idle person.

And, indeed, can any sort of help or good example be given by mercenary, greedy, depraved, and idle persons who only visit the village in order to insult, to despoil, and to terrorize?

The quay was lined with relations, and friends, and idle persons.

Every idle person in the yard moved as close as possible to see what was causing the commotion.

IDOLATER, a very idle person.

Subject to the Black Urban Areas Consolidation Act, unemployed black men could be declared "idle persons" in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.