supineness

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Noun
  • Officers on the scene noted clear signs of impairment, notably lethargy, bloodshot eyes, and difficulty with sobriety tests, despite a breathalyzer showing no alcohol.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Simpson Family The doctor said the time when a sinus infection becomes an emergency is when symptoms are changing rapidly, such as severe headaches, confusion, lethargy, decreased appetite and seizures.
    Jenna DeAngelis, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Other barriers to having home-cooked, nutritious food could include lack of motivation, medications or losing the sense of taste or smell that may lead to apathy about food.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There was a pervasive sense of cultural apathy regarding the study of the past that was growing stronger by the minute, as if the world had already accrued the maximum knowledge of prior civilizations and required nothing further in order to barrel onward into the future.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The film meticulously depicts inertia and zero-gravity movement.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Larger tires increase rotational inertia and lengthen the lever arm between hub and road, forcing the braking system to work harder.
    Bryan Rogala, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As the camera glides in and around a roller-skating rink, where much of the action takes place, Decker and Shlesinger achieve and sustain a terrific balance of comic velocity and erotic languor.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Breaking Bad took place in the languor of suburbia and Better Call Saul in the corrupt organs of the legal system, but Vince Gilligan’s latest show Pluribus makes a home out of the stranger substrate of speculative sci-fi.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Part of his great accomplishment was to take the European aesthetic of beauty and redefine it for the South, with its heat and its billboards, its indolence and humor and thick nights.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Europe’s lassitude is heightened by internal divisions.
    HENRY FARRELL, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The sluggishness of recent months is beginning to lift, and April arrives with a welcome surge of momentum and physical energy.
    Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Still, even Nvidia fans are prepared for the stock’s sluggishness to persist.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That’s not only because judges are fining more lawyers for their laziness, but because the publicity about these embarrassments has been inescapable.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Impulsivity can be seen as bad temper, disorganization as laziness, and difficulty maintaining attention as lack of interest.
    Deldhy Nicolás Moya Sánchez, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
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“Supineness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supineness. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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