do-nothingness
Example Sentences
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You could sell this to people and call it a retreat—they’d pay good money for this level of do-nothingness.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2019
But Herbert Hoover clung to the philosophy of the good neighbor, continued to translate it into official do-nothingness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Anti-Yorty jokes, aimed at the mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Under Secretary for Peacekeeping, bridled at the charges of U.N. do-nothingness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Queen's royal beef-eaters come next; but that, I think, I could endure, as their state of do-nothingness is not so absolute a quantity.
From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony