inactive
adjective
not active.
inactively
-
a word derived from
inactive.
Example Sentences
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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
All else being equal, he had a little rather strengthen Mime's chances of getting the Ring, through Siegfried, than inactively see it fall to the inveterate enemy, Alberich.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
We’ll have to sit inactively from this moment on.
From The Mind Master by Arthur J. Burks
Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
