Definition of Idly

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Definition of Idly
	Idly In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly. Related Definitions: Carelessly, Foolishly, Idle, In, Ineffectually, Lazily, Manner, Vainly

Idly Quotations

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Gerry Adams

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Knut Hamsun

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
Robert Falcon Scott

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
Mason Cooley

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Joseph Lancaster

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
Jupiter Hammon

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