| AC V.ii.50 | [Cleopatra to Proculeius] If idle talk will once be necessary |
| AW IV.iii.210 | [Parolles to First Soldier, of Bertram] a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish |
| CE II.ii.187 | [Adriana to Antipholus of Syracuse] If aught possess thee from me, it is ... idle moss |
| KL I.ii.49 | [Gloucester reading Edgar's letter] I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny |
| KL IV.iv.5 | [Cordelia to Doctor, of Lear] Crowned with ... all the idle weeds that grow / In our sustaining corn |
| LLL I.i.296 | [Berowne to himself] These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn |
| MND IV.i.166 | [Demetrius to Theseus] my love to Hermia ... seems to me now / As the remembrance of an idle gaud / Which in my childhood I did dote upon |
| R3 III.i.103 | [York to Richard] You said that idle weeds are fast in growth |
| Sonn.122.3 | [of his tables] Which shall above that idle rank remain / Beyond all date event to eternity |
| TC V.i.27 | [Thersites to Patroclus] thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk |