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
As embodied by Mastroianni, the ideal 20th-century Italian man, the “sciupafemmine” had a resigned air, touched by melancholy that suggested indolence and a lifetime of romantic disaster.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
Theodore Agnew called counter-fraud efforts “woeful” and said the government was paralyzed by a combination of “arrogance, indolence and ignorance.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
In light of his own apparent indolence and distaste for his duties, perhaps Mr. Hice should not be using the word “vacation” quite so casually.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister’s indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The Giver
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