Crossword clues for idled
idled
- Vegged out
- Waited for the green light
- Ran in park
- Just sat around
- Did naught
- Wasn't active
- Waited for the light to change
- Remained still while running
- Ran in place?
- Ran at a red light
- Lazed around
- Just hung around
- Waited for the light to turn green
- Sat at a red light, e.g
- Sat at a light with the motor running
- Ran on red
- Did some whittling, say
- Whittled on the porch, say
- Wasn't productive
- Wasn't a go-getter
- Was not in gear?
- Was in neutral
- Was in a jam?
- Warmed an engine
- Waited for the green
- Waited curbside at the airport, say
- Waited at a red light, say
- Waited at a light, say
- Took a neutral stance?
- Stayed in place
- Started the car, but kept it in park
- Sat rocking, say
- Sat in neutral
- Sat at a stoplight with the motor running
- Sat at a red light, say
- Sat at a red light
- Ran in place, in a way
- Ran but got nowhere
- Paused in a car
- Let the motor run
- Kept the car in park with the engine running
- Kept the AC running while waiting, say
- Just sat there
- Just sat
- Had nothing to do
- Didn't do a thing
- Did zip
- Did very little
- Did a whole lot of nothing
- (Of an engine) ran slowly out of gear
- Unemployed
- Wasted time
- Went nowhere
- Twiddled one's thumbs
- Sat and did nothing
- Ran in neutral
- Didn't stay active
- Loafed around
- Let go from work
- Ran without moving
- Lollygagged
- Hung around
- Wasted gas, maybe
- Puttered around
- Laid off
- Stayed put
- Now unemployed
- Sat around
- Putzed around
- Kept the engine running
- Killed time
- Wasn't employed
- Dogged it
- Lolled
- Loitered
- Spent time lazily
- Took it very easy
- Ran disconnected
- Waited around
- Frittered time away
- Lallygagged
- Whiled away the days
- Lazed about
- Dawdled
- Guided by instinct, didn't do much
- Moved furtively heading off, but didn't do anything
- Reject shop daughter enters was unoccupied
- Ran out of gear - Bluth had been in front
- I’d gone first, and just ran
- Did little or nothing
- Did little on vacation after a fashion?
- Dallied, guided by animalistic urges?
- Turned over papers by the light
- Turned over papers brought to light
- Ticked over
- Not working
- Did nothing
- Took it easy
- Lounged around
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idle \I"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Idled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Idling.]
To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed
in business.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: idle)
Usage examples of "idled".
He stared at her as the other boat idled toward him, his black eyes glittering with intensity.
But it was warmer in the truck than it was outside, and after it had idled a few minutes, warm air began blowing from the vents.
The spar had idled past the quarter-deck, and for a brief instant he had seen Betts staring up at him.
There was a fresh morning breeze to fill the lugger's sails, and as the last' marine scrambled gasping over the bulwark the boat idled clear.
A parleur could not utter the man's sympathy for this spacefarer, idled and isolated.
Now that we are here, in — in this everydayness, I worry about how you'll come to feel, how much it will hurt you, being always idled and confined.
The water was way too shallow for the ski boat, so the boyfriends idled it about fifty yards from the stilt house.
Ancient and stupid, but equipped with new chemical elements and contributions, the fog loomed and idled, hoping it wasn't in the way.