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English to English adjective
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Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | | Example: otiose lines in a play
advice is wasted words
a pointless remark
a life essentially purposeless
senseless violence
source: wordnet30
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producing no result or effect | | Example: a futile effort
the therapy was ineffectual
an otiose undertaking
an unavailing attempt
source: wordnet30
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disinclined to work or exertion | | Example: faineant kings under whose rule the country languished
an indolent hanger-on
too lazy to wash the dishes
shiftless idle youth
slothful employees
the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy
source: wordnet30
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