indolence
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Nobody would’ve called it back when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was singing about the extremes of teenage indolence in Green Day’s first hit single, “Longview.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
But if days of indolence sounds dull, it’s easy to head out: Onto mountain trails.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022
Li, a dreamy scribbler who likes nothing better than to nap in the bedclothes after a long day of chasing calves around, finds the imposed indolence delicious.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021
I’ve pushed away the Tootsie Roll wrappers and empty root beer cans and gathered around my bed what I will call my library of indolence.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2020
Fitzsimmons realized that he was confronted with a behavioral problem at least as maddening as Hard Tack’s murderousness: pathological indolence.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing indolence
The Giver
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Negatives with "in"
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Life of Pi
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