do-nothingism

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Etymology

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From do-nothing +‎ -ism.

Noun

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do-nothingism (uncountable)

  1. 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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