supineness
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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why did you delay to tell this, and lead me to blame you in my thoughts for supineness?"
From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
On the part of the senate itself there must be no apathy, no supineness, no dilettanteism, but a stern, vigorous determination stringently and impartially to enforce prompt obedience to its edicts.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
There have been earnest efforts to justify the fateful supineness of our army after this victory.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
The result is that it is no longer permissible to deplore in pessimistic tones the inevitable degradation of the race, nor to accept with supineness the threatened deterioration of a population.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
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