apathetically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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When the demoralized colleagues do show up, they perform apathetically.
From New York Times
They apathetically stayed at home, thus helping to hand the White House to a man whose monumental defects were staring them in the face — a danger they either refused or were too blind to see.
From Washington Post
But she stares at the ceiling apathetically and does nothing.
From Scientific American
She buys it by the gallon and brings it to work in dainty little Tupperware bowls that she stacks beside the white cube food-packs that the rest of us apathetically consume.
From Nature
This is not a time to apathetically accept hypocrisy from Washington, D.C.; moments of true empathy from Congress are too rare.
From Seattle Times
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