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idly

adverb as in lazily

Weak match

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“This is unacceptable and frankly, un-American. California will not sit idly as its workers are systematically denied the right to organize.”

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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.

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

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

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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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