Crossword-Solution: IDLY 4 letters, 192 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Idly	adv.	In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
IDLY	anagram	IDYL

We have 192 clues for the answer “IDLY”

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"And my fingers wandered ___ . . . ": Procter	1 answer
"And my fingers wandered ___"	1 answer
As a loafer would	1 answer
As a sluggard would	1 answer
At one's leisure	1 answer
Bad way to sit at work	1 answer
For no real reason	1 answer
How a lazybones hangs around	1 answer
How casual thoughts are offered	1 answer
How chatterboxes may chat	1 answer
How doodles are drawn	1 answer
How doodles are generally drawn	1 answer
How doodles are usually drawn	1 answer
How fainéants spend time	1 answer
How loafers stand by	1 answer
How one may hang around	1 answer
How one might scroll through a social-media feed	1 answer
How otiose people spend time	1 answer
How people may stand by	1 answer
How people often scroll through social media	1 answer
How some people chatter	1 answer
How some sit by	1 answer
How some spend their days off	1 answer
How some stand by	1 answer
How some threats come across	1 answer
How thumb-twiddling is done	1 answer
How thumbs are twiddled	1 answer
How to just hang around	1 answer
How to stand by?	1 answer
How you might browse Netflix	1 answer
In a aimless way	1 answer
In a casual way	1 answer
In a frivolous way	1 answer
In a ho-hum manner	1 answer
In a laid-back fashion	1 answer
In a laid-back manner	1 answer
In a lazy fashion	1 answer
In a lazy manner	1 answer
In a lazy way	1 answer
In a not-really-paying-attention fashion	1 answer
In a purposeless manner	1 answer
In a shiftless way	1 answer
In a thumb-twiddling way	1 answer
In a trivial way	1 answer
In a useless way	1 answer
In a vain manner	1 answer
In an aimless fashion	1 answer
In an off hand manner	1 answer
In an otiose manner	1 answer
In an otiose way	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AEAR

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Unscramble IDLY 4-letter words that start with I 4-letter words that end in Y 4-letter words containing DL 4-letter words containing LY 4-letter words with I and D

Sentences with IDLY (5)

The handsome girl waited for some time idly in her place, and the only sound heard in the stillness was the hopping of the canary up and down the perches of its prison.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Nor did she put the question altogether idly, but, for the moment, with a portion of genuine earnestness; for, such was Pearl’s wonderful intelligence, that her mother half doubted whether she were not acquainted with the secret spell of her existence, and might not now reveal herself.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The boys assembled at the schoolhouse, and strolled idly about the banks of the brook; but no schoolmaster.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

When federal marshals were sent to carry out the order, Little Rock citizens were in no mood to stand idly by and watch.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Now my sympathies have ever been with the weaker side of an argument, and though I knew nothing of the cause of the trouble I could not stand idly by and see a brave man butchered by superior numbers.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with IDLY (3)

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

Sylvia Plath

Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall." The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.

Richelle Mead Last Sacrifice

Katherine stared intently at the cold, hard steel. She knew it would be loaded and that, if need be, there was extra ammunition in the back of the drawer. She would not be one of those girls, the ones who sit idly by and wait for the answers to come to them.

Gwenn Wright Filter

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 291 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).