unproductiveness

These are trends that underlie the historic unproductiveness of congressional lawmakers.

Meantime discontented and worthless men kept returning to Spain, where, encouraged by idle courtiers, they worried the king daily with accounts of the unproductiveness of the colony.

We must not think in the petrifying terms of the last epoch: "militarism," "military organization," "the unproductiveness of compulsory labor."

I grew very dissatisfied with the unproductiveness of my daily routine, though, and told Grant I must start writing again.

Juvenal complains bitterly of the unproductiveness of honest toil in literature and the professions.