NOUN
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person who does no work
a lazy bum
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility
a do-nothing government
How To Use do-nothing In A Sentence
- Perhaps the most biting of all biblical condemnations of inactivity comes from the last book, when the church of Laodicea is rebuked for its do-nothing attitude. HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?
- Already on Thursday morning, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley went on the offensive against what he described as a do-nothing climate on Capitol Hill. Reuters: Press Release
- At the end of a do-nothing day, Mary Ann brought the Sani-Fem home with her. BABYCAKES
- Obama than has more campaign ammo to attack what he calls the "do-nothing Congress. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Ex-communicated from the do-nothing party of 'no' ..... play the lotto Charlie, your luck is riding high. Crist wants special session, amendment to ban offshore drilling
- But often, the result is a do-nothing benchmark, which the compiler can optimize away partially or completely without you realizing it, making the test run faster than expected.
- I was tempted to make 2004 another do-nothing year.
- Explain the following expressions: "do-nothing kings"; _missi dominici_; Holy Roman Empire; and "Donation of Pepin. Early European History
- First, our June 1 editorial, ‘The Do-Nothings,’ refers to a Vatican canonist's view that the rights of priests would be violated by some of the measures the U.S. bishops were proposing to take at their Dallas meeting.
- In the 1952 midterms, which after all came just two years after the 1948 election, in which President Truman had his marvelous upset, railed against the do-nothing Republican Congress, brought Democrats back into power, just two years later in the middle of a really unpopular Korean War, Democrats thrown out again. 'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do?