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- noun Jocular Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
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- noun
inactivity ;habitual sloth ;idleness
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Examples
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“I have tried to stand between these two forces,” King wrote, “saying that we need emulate neither the ‘do-nothingism’ of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Their opening remarks are noteworthy and highlight the unfortunate gap between their serious efforts to stave off a fiscal debacle and the current do-nothingism coming from the White House and Senate Democrats.
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Personally, I get no pleasure in imagining future Americans cursing their ancestors, not just for their do-nothingism, but their actual resistance to doing anything.
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Personally, I get no pleasure in imagining future Americans cursing their ancestors, not just for their do-nothingism, but their actual resistance to doing anything.
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Moreover, when Herszenhorn and other mainstream journalists repeat the 60-vote myth without explaining its partisan origins the frame plays right into the hands of McConnell and John McCain and other Republicans who denounce the Democratic-controlled Congress for its "do-nothingism."
Joseph A. Palermo: Journalists Spin for Republicans on the New "60-Vote" Senate Regime 2008
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Democratic gains would simply lead to continued do-nothingism.
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Yet the leadership remains enamored of a disastrous strategy of do-nothingism, hoping that the Bush administration and the Republican Party will simply self-destruct, if Democrats just keep their heads low.
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Government is free enough from red-tape do-nothingism and circumlocution, to make short work of these insolent rebels, whatever they be.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Child-saving agencies: coöperation with schools, 174-183; do-nothingism in, 332
Civics and Health William H. Allen
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It is as much a wrong to bring up children in an atmosphere of do-nothingism, as to refuse to have their teeth attended to or to have glasses fitted to weak eyes.
Civics and Health William H. Allen
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