- without taking action or showing concern: We cannot stand idly by and let evil prevail!
- without apparent purpose or intention; aimlessly: He would tinker idly in his workshop for hours.
- in a lazy way; indolently:Neither of them does anything much in life besides live idly or recklessly.
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