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 Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

Surely inertness, supineness, stupidity, and even torpor may be made to excite emotion in an audience.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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

But Espivent relied upon the sailors of La Couronne, the National Guards of order, in continual relations with him, and above all, on the well-known supineness of the Commission.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.