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passively

adverb as in indifferently

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All while the international community observed, if not passively, impotently.

For some of these kids, video games are a way to passively experience the shock and awe of combat.

Sure, it was phrased passively, and sure, it came at the end of the address.

But Tehran has rarely been content with passively benefitting from these crises.

But Mrs. M is capable of doing much more than just passively standing by her man in his moment of crisis.

Being the hereditary Datto, the inhabitants of the valley generally sympathized with him, at least passively.

And Val, in his good-nature, bore the infliction passively so long as she kept civil and peaceable.

He went with me passively enough, and he did not speak until we had struck into the main trail of the Shawnees.

The two sentries at the gate stood to arms passively, and there seemed to be a continuous circulation inside and out.

She gave it up to him, passively, but when he offered her his arm, merely shook her head and pursed up her lips.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to passively, such as: calmly, peaceably, peacefully, quietly, and without resistance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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