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

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

We’ll have to sit inactively from this moment on.

From The Mind Master by Burks, Arthur J.

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)