do-nothing
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Yet the role of a do-nothing prince consort doesn’t suit the dutiful, and now fiercely faithful, Alfred, and a war of wills—and of the sexes—ensues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
As much as Forrest is a know-nothing, except when it comes to knowing what love is, he’s also a do-nothing when it comes to acknowledging systemic wrongdoing.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
Whenever a company descends into dysfunction, often there’s a do-nothing board at the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Consider, however, that Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, has said he sets aside “puttering time” every morning before taking any calls or meetings — basically carving out a scheduled chunk of do-nothing time.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2021
Dear, dear! could we only change places, This do-nothing pussy and I, You’d think it hard work, Cleopatra, To live, as the moments went by.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
And we tell the liars, deniers, and do-nothings to shove off: There’s no future in naysaying.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2019
Winkler’s Gene Cousineau, a self-serious buffoon long used to being surrounded by weightless do-nothings, mistakes Barry’s confession for an improvised monologue.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
We associate loafing with people wasting their lives; with harried parents shaking their sleeping teenage children out of bed; with do-nothings, doing nothing.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018
Dismissing us as do-nothings gave us plenty of leeway to do everything we wanted while no one was watching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Riding into Jas-chi-khan, I dismount at a building which, from the presence of several "do-nothings," I take to be a khan for the accommodation of travellers.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas
