indolence
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I’ve spent the last 40-odd years trying to fight the good fight against the forces of indolence and greed to do the best with our stuff that you can do.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024
Recently, during a dramatic meeting of the Sunshine Committee when a member resigned over lawmakers’ yearslong indolence on acting on its recommendations, another member, David Zeeck, shared the frustration.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023
As embodied by Mastroianni, the ideal 20th-century Italian man, the “sciupafemmine” had a resigned air, touched by melancholy that suggested indolence and a lifetime of romantic disaster.
From New York Times • May 26, 2022
Li, a dreamy scribbler who likes nothing better than to nap in the bedclothes after a long day of chasing calves around, finds the imposed indolence delicious.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021
Fitzsimmons realized that he was confronted with a behavioral problem at least as maddening as Hard Tack’s murderousness: pathological indolence.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing indolence
The Giver
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Negatives with "in"
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Life of Pi
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