Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inert manner; inactively; sluggishly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Without activity; sluggishly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inert manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But that never happened: there was no continuity in reflection, we pushed ahead inertly, without necessary meditation and without ever trying to really improve the situation.
Travel 2009
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Small children sat inertly in rows, some on benches and others on the floor, and I was struck by the lack of noise in a space where there were more than 70 children.
Jennifer Morgan: For-Profit Orphanages Keep Haitian Families Apart Jennifer Morgan 2011
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Lauren digs and explores, I kiss back inertly, rubbing his crotch for fun, trying to align our lips in a secure airlock for the least amount of smear.
Confetti Love Brett Rosenblatt 2011
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Small children sat inertly in rows, some on benches and others on the floor, and I was struck by the lack of noise in a space where there were more than 70 children.
Jennifer Morgan: For-Profit Orphanages Keep Haitian Families Apart Jennifer Morgan 2011
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It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible.
Eric Liu: The Real Meaning of Balls and Strikes Eric Liu 2010
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Sometimes, the government stood by inertly as people withered—for example, in Kenya, where drought was threatening to wipe out hundreds of thousands of nomadic herders.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Sometimes, the government stood by inertly as people withered—for example, in Kenya, where drought was threatening to wipe out hundreds of thousands of nomadic herders.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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As the crimes and criminality are in an increasing upswing, this leadership is just looking on inertly and listlessly.
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But that never happened: there was no continuity in reflection, we pushed ahead inertly, without necessary meditation and without ever trying to really improve the situation.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Anyone looking into his cell while he was so engaged would have seen only a discarded Algerian in prison clothes, slumped inertly on a filthy mattress, staring dully at a wall.
William Langewiesche on Mouloud Sihali Langewiesche, William 2008
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