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idly

adverb as in lazily

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The men and women shown milling about and idly gazing — which we are now doing in the museum — become projections of us.

“Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

Still, he wasn’t one to sit idly by, waiting on a problem to solve itself.

Famine is taking place in Gaza - just a short drive away from hundreds of trucks of aid sitting idly outside its borders.

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You don’t stand idly by as your sworn enemy assumes even more power to mess with you — you toss that problem elsewhere if you can.

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