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do-nothingism
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See also: donothingism
English
Etymology
From do-nothing + -ism.
Noun
- inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness
- 1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:
- [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
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