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单词 inactively
释义 inˈactively, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an inactive manner; inertly, sluggishly.
1730–6in Bailey (folio).1755in Johnson. [J. quotes Locke (Educ. §125), ‘whether he inactively loiters it away’, but in all edd. examined the word is ‘unactively’.]1837Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. ii. §6 This pope was not inactively occupied in the great cause of subduing the Protestant heresy.1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. xliii. V. 22 The Continental Congress..waited inactively for his appeals.
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