do-nothing
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The plan’s do-nothing nature was never so clearly articulated as when Modica approached the mic at a packed town meeting Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
As much as Forrest is a know-nothing, except when it comes to knowing what love is, he’s also a do-nothing when it comes to acknowledging systemic wrongdoing.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
Whenever a company descends into dysfunction, often there’s a do-nothing board at the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
I’m not a sit around, do-nothing kind of guy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
Even our elegant ladies and literary women, tired of their do-nothing lives and their nick-nacks, might find a relaxation full of attractions in the art of drawing on the ground and biting-in their passing fancies.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
And we tell the liars, deniers, and do-nothings to shove off: There’s no future in naysaying.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2019
Winkler’s Gene Cousineau, a self-serious buffoon long used to being surrounded by weightless do-nothings, mistakes Barry’s confession for an improvised monologue.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
We associate loafing with people wasting their lives; with harried parents shaking their sleeping teenage children out of bed; with do-nothings, doing nothing.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018
According to America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, an accusatory, tweaked-up documentary that aired on PBS last week, the watchful do-nothings included high officials of the U.S. government.
From Time Magazine Archive
But La Queue cried that they were do-nothings, and that they were just amusing themselves.
From The Fête At Coqueville 1907 by L. G. Meyer
