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Verb
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Present participle for to neglect helping when one’s time is needed most
fiddling while Rome burns
disregarding
ignoring
neglecting
sitting on one's thumbs
Verb
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Present participle for to be idle or do nothing in particular
twiddling thumbs
doing nothing
sitting around
hanging about
hanging around
hanging round
killing time
wasting time
having nothing to do
sitting it out
not lifting a finger
kicking your heels
dawdling
dallying
idling
loafing
lazing
lolling
lounging
hanging out
filling in time
vegging out
consuming time
goofing off
frittering away time
chilling
idling away time
hacking around
kicking back
chillin
bumming
kicking around
amusing oneself
idling away the hours
whiling away the time
lazying
passing the time
dillydallying
messing around
lounging about
doing nothing in particular
chilling out
lazing about
relaxing
lolling around
frittering away
whiling away time
shilly-shallying
lollygagging
burning daylight
footling
loitering
droning
lounging around
fooling around
lying around
passing time
loafing around
loafing about
lazing around
bumming around
mooching around
taking it easy
lingering
waiting
vegetating
slacking
pottering
skiving
trifling
puttering around
stalling
dilly-dallying
basking
goldbricking
fiddling around
slowing down
pottering around
mooching about
tarrying
fribbling
sauntering
puttering
lying about
malingering
whiling away
standing around
doodling
procrastinating
marking time
knocking around
lolling about
monkeying around
goofing around
whiling away hours
fooling about
horsing around
hanging
frittering time away
faffing about
fiddling
drifting
mooching
strolling
evading
shirking
dreaming
taking things easy
letting down
piddling
fooling with
trifling with
putting off
playing games
boondoggling
skulking
languishing
resting on your oars
stagnating
sitting back and do nothing
batting about
moulderingUK
slouching about
bludging
sitting back
slouching
puddling around
fannying about
batting around
puddling
going to seed
slummocking
slouching around
whiling
degenerating
molderingUS
bobbing off
frittering
lying
unwinding
mucking about
slacking off
diddling around
staying
dossing
whiling away the hours
fooling away
daydreaming
piddling around
piddling about
vegging
remaining
abiding
dwelling
residing
hovering
roaming
sticking around
spending time
haunting
living
twiddling
playing
Verb
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Present participle for to decline to take a side or vote on something
abstaining
fence-sitting
staying neutral
sitting on the fence
not taking sides
declining to vote
refusing to vote
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