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

They therefore remained in their quarters, inactively hoping, as men are wont to do, and keeping alive the remembrance of their lost lord by their lamentations.

From Undine by Bunnett, Fanny Elizabeth

If certain men who had attended yesterday's caucus still loafed inactively about the sidewalks, it was not because they were indifferent to possible developments, but in obedience to a settled plan.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville

To me and to many others the thought that our country might stand by and watch inactively an attack upon France was intolerable.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various