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idly

adverb as in lazily

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“The conservative groups would sit by idly when there are a disproportionate number of Black people in jails and prisons,” Howard said.

“They’ll sit by idly when there’s large numbers of Black students who are misplaced in special education classrooms. They’ll sit by silently when there are large numbers of Black students who are not graduating from high school. But yet, when there’s a remedy, an attempt to somehow respond, to combat that, then all of a sudden, there’s this anger, and there’s lawsuits. That’s the part that disappoints. I just wish that we lived in a different political climate.”

I was standing idly when approached to arrest Sullivan, portrayed by actor Josh Williams.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK would not sit “idly by whilst Putin and his mafia state ride roughshod over international law, including the Chemical Weapons Convention”.

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But, even if many users are just idly browsing without any real intention of moving, it is still worth it to have properties on there.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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