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Sentence count:94+9Posted:2017-03-01Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: lazilySimilar words: lucidlyrapidlytimidlysplendidlylanguidlyidlesidlebadlyMeaning: [aɪdlɪ]  adv. in an idle manner. 
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61. "Has there been an accident?" Gary asked, idly curious.
62. As they walked, Brown and Polack talked idly.
63. Selma was picking idly at her steamed fish.
64. He was idly leafing through a book.
65. We must not let our youth slip idly by.
66. She sat idly by and watch the child fall.
67. To handle something idly or ignorantly; tamper.
68. Regardless of what triggers a relapse, the Obama administration won't stand idly by,(www.Sentencedict.com) Banc of America's Rosenberg said.
69. In talking purposelessly and idly we lose the valuable thing which we cannot afford to lose, and we gain nothing profitable.
70. Mary leafed idly through some old magazines as she waited for her taxi to arrive.
71. But as China adjusts it policies to stimulate economic growth, it is unlikely to idly watch its competitiveness in non-U. S. export markets slide much further.
72. To talk or chatter idly or meaninglessly; babble or prate.
73. LL: To putz around is to behave idly, without anything very urgent or important to do.
74. Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas.
75. He found himself content to watch idly the sluggish flow of the turbid stream.
76. The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
77. Finally and most questionably, the proposal to double our exports assumes that foreign export-oriented countries like Germany and China would stand idly by while we "stole" their export markets.
78. At the far end of the passage an Arab was flicking idly, with a feather duster.
79. They watch idly as the other passenger installs a black instrument case, slaps a San Francisco Chronicle on her table and sets down a fast-food bag.
80. If you are now idly imagining dozens of usesfora brick orthenovelties of a sleepless world, then you are probably a divergent thinker.
81. And when Qaddafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town, to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by.
82. The use of ozone-depleting chemicals grew dramatically and the government sat idly by.
83. He picked up a pencil and toyed with it idly.
84. Ashurst said idly: " Where were you standing when you saw the gipsy bogle, Jim? "
85. When I sit idly at my desk or lie in bed waiting for sleep, I steal back to Williamstown.
86. Bloom releases his hand and writes idly on the table in backhand, pencilling slow curves.
87. The lake water dreams lightly underneath the icy layers, thinking idly back on the memories of the past summer - ferry ducks, the bank grass and the tuberose.
88. At a small inn he idly watches two people boating on the river.
89. Whenever mentioning school days, they would recollect the endless hours when they sat in the classroom idly and boringly.
90. To the lock with the lock core clutch structure, a non-mating key inserted into the lock core can rotate the front lock core idly only without rotating the back lock core.
More similar words: lucidlyrapidlytimidlysplendidlylanguidlyidlesidlebadlysadlycuddlyloudlygladlygoodlydeadlyhardlyproudlybroadlyspindlymarkedlyhardly anydoggedlyinwardlyfriendlyallegedlyabsurdlysupposedlydastardlyniggardlyreputedlyunabashedly
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