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
The result is that it is no longer permissible to deplore in pessimistic tones the inevitable degradation of the race, nor to accept with supineness the threatened deterioration of a population.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various
Carelessness, indolence, a pleasurable supineness, without any other grievous fault or enormous mistake, had, little by little, prepared all for the catastrophe.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
When, by the aid of such evidence as remains to us, we turn to examine the facts of the case, we discover in them, it must be confessed, no symptoms whatever of supineness or lethargy.
From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by John Gerard
