supine
adjective
lying on the back, face or front upward.
supineness
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a word derived from
supine.
Example Sentences
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After years of supineness, therefore, the American Government will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action .
From Time Magazine Archive
Again they would meet two or three royalists talking in a dejected, disparaging way of the victory; or else blustering in anger over the supineness or inefficiency of their generals.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
I shall make bold to say that nothing but the general ignorance of the facts can account for the extraordinary supineness of the mass of English practitioners with regard to this question.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
And meantime the supineness of the mass of the citizens was marvellous.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
He not only subdued the reactionary intrigues, but the supineness of the country, which had left its soldiers in a condition that played into the intriguers' hands.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
