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.

Nabonidus became a mere vassal of Cyrus, and lived more or less inactively in his palace at Tima, leaving the direction of power at Babylon in the hands of his son, Bel-sharuzu.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

In the one case the faculties appealed to are actively occupied with the subject presented; in the other they are inactively occupied with it, and the attention is continually drawn away by more attractive thoughts.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert