idly

If one feels their species is threatened, surely they can’t sit idly by.

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

The men and women shown milling about and idly gazing — which we are now doing in the museum — become projections of us.

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

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