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

However, he was not the boy to face a calamity inactively.

From Andy the Acrobat by Harkness, Peter T.

Two thirds of his time were spent in efforts to raise money to meet his payments, and the other third in brooding sadly and inactively over the embarrassed condition of his affairs.

From Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

All else being equal, he had a little rather strengthen Mime's chances of getting the Ring, through Siegfried, than inactively see it fall to the inveterate enemy, Alberich.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall