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

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 Gronow, R. H. (Rees Howell)

Yet in this short interval, when that will lay inactively in abeyance, he suffered.

From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)

If we loitered inactively at Ems, we certainly suffered no grass to grow under our feet now.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James