supineness

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Noun
  • Context Forty years ago in Azerbaijan in the south Caucuses region of western Asia, the laconic lethargy of Soviet bulk wine production was walloped by planned vineyard destruction.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Imagine the possibilities to overcome political lethargy on these issues if voters had meaningful power to initiate change on their own.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Both men were prone to flashes of brilliance, ultimately lost in a haze of injury and apathy.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • What some perceive as apathy is actually self-preservation.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The business seems to be in a weird state of inertia and denial.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Using these, scientists were able to model the moment of inertia and Vesta's interior structure.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • This languor expands in the velvety air.
    J.T. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The idea of Irish indolence fused with a quasi-religious faith in the laws of the market to shape the British response to the famine.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence), and those who received it had little idea at first how to cook it.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But neither was there the ho-hum, dutiful lassitude that usually accompanies second inaugurations, like Barack Obama’s in 2013.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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