supineness

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Noun
  • Becker advises watching for excessive licking, especially of the paws, drooling, skin irritation, or unusual lethargy.
    Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Officers on the scene noted clear signs of impairment, notably lethargy, bloodshot eyes, and difficulty with sobriety tests, despite a breathalyzer showing no alcohol.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • He was supposed to be the antidote to the apathy.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The growing apathy toward big-screen entertainment was also owed to the patina of all-American wholesomeness that studios imposed on their stables of stars, and the nothing-to-see-here style of movie journalism was wearing thin.
    Joshua John Miller, Vanity Fair, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This second season is once again poking at inertia and stasis and how romantic relationships can crumble into a series of self-destructive choices.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Manson can’t quite make up her mind about the value proposition of institutional inertia.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As the camera glides in and around a roller-skating rink, where much of the action takes place, Decker and Shlesinger achieve and sustain a terrific balance of comic velocity and erotic languor.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.
    HENRY FARRELL, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • One aspect of California’s economic sluggishness is an outflow of workers due to its sky-high living costs.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The sluggishness of recent months is beginning to lift, and April arrives with a welcome surge of momentum and physical energy.
    Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The issue isn’t laziness or indifference.
    Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026
  • After battling burnout, persistent procrastination or social weariness for years, professionals are beginning to wonder if laziness was ever the cause.
    Malana VanTyler, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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