"felt idle" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is not doing anything, usually because they have nothing to do or don't feel like doing anything. For example, "The day was hot and her brother felt idle, so he decided to take a nap."
"I felt outraged," Idle said in a telephone interview last week from his home office in the Los Angeles area.
Lively and inviting, "George Washington" follows its group of young actors -- none of whom have an ounce of the professional, ingratiating slickness of child performers -- through what initially feels like idle conversation and turns out to be layers of character revelation.
Watching Coach Trip before it gets evil feels like idling in a Polish airport, inhaling the exhaust fumes of the coach that spent nine hours bringing you here, praying for death.
He missed the tremors sent by a reverse faulting beneath the earth's crust in Virginia which would soon overtake his week: the convulsions felt by city drivers idling at stoplights; the swaying of skyscrapers that sent thousands scurrying down flights of stairs, in a replay of the false alarms set off during the early aftermath of September 11th.
We feel it is idle to deny that pumps move fluids because pumps are realized in (or by) the system of parts whose properties and relations figure in the fully detailed causal explanation of the movement of fluids.
A twist of the key in the ignition, and Matt felt the aging truck's familiar idle.
He later followed his interest in video gaming to a product management role Idle Games, but still felt unfulfilled.
To revive the fervor of punk, which the band felt was being distorted by new wave, the Idles sought to look as intimidating as possible.
The shame I obscurely felt, and the notion it would be immoral to pass idle months drowsily sucking at a bottle of opiates, was a modern anxiety.
"I am not an idle man … some of the reports … I frankly felt sick last night when I read them.
