So, are mummy's boy's bone-idle, broke or basket cases?. From Wordnik.com. [Juliet Linley: Mummy's Boys: Bone-Idle, Broke or Basket Cases?] Reference
Doesnt this just encourage other bone-idle feckless families?. From Wordnik.com. [The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
He muttered something about bone-idle servants, and pushed the cup away. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
You are right, the consensus among run-of-the-mill bone-idle journalists is that Wakefield has been proved wrong. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I was tempted to take some around to the neighbors to show them what I had accomplished, but my bone-idle laziness kicked and I just ate and enjoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Victimhood as comfort blanket, an excuse for bone-idle black kids, who don't seem to have noticed that Asian children tend to do pretty well in British schools?. From Wordnik.com. [It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up] Reference
His diction also came under fire, as “He would not affect a drawling, bone-idle accent that his colleagues had perfected after years of hoovering gak in some godawful nightspot while a random Geldof played her frigging ipod over the main speakers.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Yes, I've been married to that bone-idle slob for 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference
For a period of a year and a half there were some players who were a bit bone-idle. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
So anyway, McDonalds doesn't make you fat - you're own bone-idle lack of exercise makes you fat. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
So that's the new term for being a bone-idle, drunken layabout who can't stand to hear the truth?. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
But he's not doing too badly, really, for a quirky, bone-idle gelding with a history of heart problems. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Mainstream media journalists are bone-idle and brain-dead, capable of swallowing (and regurgitating) prepackaged propaganda pap and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
And how did the scourge of trade union bullies and bone-idle backsliders rate in the Newsnight poll of the best and worst post-war prime ministers?. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
(a) in character it is often more like a suffocating muffle (sometimes warm and flattering, other times just bone-idle), rather than a machine-with-an-agenda. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Raging in Islington] Reference
They are lazy, bone-idle women who have no interest taking part in a political movement for change but are trying to get credibility for their selfish lives by playing identification politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
You should have made her work, work with her 'ands, as I told you,' stead of giving her her head, like you did, and lettin 'her sit bone-idle in that gimcrack doll-house of yours from morning till night. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
Princess Margaret later married and divorced a man she did not love and then had years to waste as the model of the bone-idle, cigarette-holdered, gin-sipping socialite, surrounded with third-rate gossips and charmers and as unhappy as the day was long. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
D'you suppose we've scoured half heaven in the clouds, and half earth in the mists, to be taken in at this time of the day by a bone-idle, old hand-quern of your type? ". From Wordnik.com. [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference
"My boy," said the Dean on the day of Phineas's expulsion, "I don't want to rub it in unduly, but I've warned your poor mother for years, and you for months, against this bone-idle, worthless fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
Sometimes, on the other hand, I’ll claim that my absent-mindedness is because most of the ROM in my brain is in use as virtual RAM — because it’s all processing power, you see, and I’m not actually just bone-idle about learning those things you other geeks call “facts.”. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan] Reference
For myself I am too bone-idle to do this. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
They’re all bone-idle. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Montmartre]
You girls -- at least you two -- are bone-idle. From Wordnik.com. [Leonora] Reference
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