do-nothingness
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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
He is accused of "incompetence, do-nothingness and reactionary stultification."
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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It reminds one of the drowsy do-nothingness of "Thompson's Castle of Indolence," only here the indolence is not the indolence of luxurious ease but of hunger and rags.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon