inactively

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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

Adv. inactively &c. adj.; in suspense, in abeyance.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

But Wright lingered inactively at Menindie, allowed the proper time for following out the track of Mr. Burke to glide away and disgracefully broke faith with one who had too generously trusted him.

From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John

In the one case the faculties appealed to are actively occupied with the subject presented; in the other they are inactively occupied with it, and the attention is continually drawn away by more attractive thoughts.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert