Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living without labor: as, the unworking classes.
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- verb Present participle of
unwork .
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Examples
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I, for one, froze like a deer in headlights, unsure which expression to plaster onto my unworking face probably not "angry"?
Angora Holly Polo: The Burlesque Class Angora Holly Polo 2012
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I, for one, froze like a deer in headlights, unsure which expression to plaster onto my unworking face probably not "angry"?
Angora Holly Polo: The Burlesque Class Angora Holly Polo 2012
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I, for one, froze like a deer in headlights, unsure which expression to plaster onto my unworking face probably not "angry"?
Angora Holly Polo: The Burlesque Class Angora Holly Polo 2012
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Now we're told that those of us who do work, must give the unworking classes whatever they want.
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For the very notion of the annular drive already contains a form of self-reflection, even if in a blind way, since each drive is the object of the other: a reflexive structure that is part of Schelling's deeply deconstructive unworking of self-consciousness as enlightenment.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Moreover, psychoanalysis is the form as well as content of the 1815 version, which inscribes itself within a movement of return or unworking.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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We found out in Iraq that when we paid the pool of unworking people, they came to our side.
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When I told my young neighbor I needed him and "Cat" to bring it down as well as a huge unworking TV they left behind for me to dispose of, Chris immediately remarked -- how lucky that he didn't burn the house down!
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Unlike the prez, they're having unworking vacations.
Conventional Wisdom 2008
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But far from this desire being the engine of the dialectic, the means by which the philosophical subjectparadigmatically masculineself-consciously confirms himself, it is instead the secreted source of that subject's unworking.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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