Do-nothing Definition

do͝onŭthĭng
do-nothings
adjective
Offering no initiative for change, especially in politics.
American Heritage
Showing no ambition or initiative; complacent.
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noun
A person without ambition or initiative; idler.
Webster's New World
An idle or lazy person.
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Other Word Forms of Do-nothing

Noun

Singular:
do-nothing
Plural:
do-nothings

Do-nothing Sentence Examples

  • I'll do nothing of the kind!

  • He might go running over there or he might do nothing.

  • But in Goshen the Boers would let him do nothing.

  • Yielding to the inevitable, but not forgetting to announce a brilliant victory in a bulletin, he sent his troops into winter quarters along the Passarge and down the Baltic, enjoining on his corps commanders most strictly to do nothing to disturb their adversary.

  • In August 1791, Fersen was sent to Vienna to induce the emperor Leopold to accede to a new coalition against revolutionary France, but he soon came to the conclusion that the Austrian court meant to do nothing at all.

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