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idly

[ US /ˈaɪdɫi/ ]
[ UK /ˈa‍ɪdli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an idle manner
    this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people

How To Use idly In A Sentence

  • A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
  • The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • It appears well evident that the above mentioned compound is rapidly absorbed by the nasal mucosa into the systemic hematic circulation without first-pass metabolism.
  • The strategy is to get water to be absorbed by the outer layer of skin, the stratum corneum and then to seal the water in the skin before it evaporates (which it will do rapidly).
  • Moreover, social values and structures have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
  • The man played idly with a deck of cards, shuffling and re-shuffling with a bit of a smirk on his face.
  • I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times
  • She owns a home in Montgomery County, Md., a market where home values have been appreciating rapidly.
  • It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.
  • Looking radiantly healthy - in contrast to her wan mien of recent months - she lucidly defended herself the interviewers tried to extract an apology from her.
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