supineness
Example Sentences
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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .
From Time Magazine Archive
But for the supineness of Goring, who had just succeeded Wilmot as General of the Horse, the Parliamentary cavalry might have been captured in like manner.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
Again they would meet two or three royalists talking in a dejected, disparaging way of the victory; or else blustering in anger over the supineness or inefficiency of their generals.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
No such thing; they were constantly improving, the supineness of a few in respect to the interests of the mother country, blamable as it certainly was, to the contrary notwithstanding.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren
Should they, by way of relaxation, cease to work for three days in the year, they are not to be blamed for laziness or supineness.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose
