Inactively [adverb]

Definition of Inactively:

casually, unhurriedly

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Sentence/Example of Inactively:

One half of Germany encouraged the rebels, the other inactively awaited the issue; Spanish assistance was still very remote.

In this stately obscurity did Wallenstein silently, but not inactively, await the hour of revenge.

Epicurus, who believes that the gods merely watch the destiny of men inactively from their blissful heights, is right.

Night put a stop to hostilities, and the next day, until late in the afternoon, we passed inactively.

If we loitered inactively at Ems, we certainly suffered no grass to grow under our feet now.

Opposite stood a group of young dandies with girls upon their arms looking inactively upon the scene.

We only find that he looked inactively on the great change which took place in Syria in the last decade of his reign.

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

I resolved, rather than wait inactively for death with that weapon useless, to employ the most reckless means of escape.

We could not sit inactively under this decree of annihilation.