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inactively

ADVERB
languidly
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The committee recommended expanding the program to “all but the most inactively traded” stocks, ETFs and related derivatives.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 19, 2011

We're not abandoning the shuttle, but we're not going to wait inactively either.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buol, upon this, yielded and remained, but, during the fearful battle that ensued, remained in the post-house on the Brenner, inactively watching the conflict, which terminated in the triumph of the peasantry.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks

Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

The result was, that when the cavalry had discharged their carbines, and were still far off, we occasionally stood face to face, looking at each other inactively, not knowing what the next move might be.

From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow




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