Definition of passively | Bee Dictionary of English

The Lebanese Army watched passively.
Dealt pro-actively with his personal life vulnerabilities, rather than passively addressing them only when asked.
You can, of course, just listen to the music passively as it plays on your computer.

Leading from behind
President Obama stood by passively for a year as Morsi and the Brotherhood began to seize total power, repress critics and pave the way for a complete transformation of Egypt into an Islamist state without threatening a cutoff of U.S. aid.
July 4, 2013 - U-T San Diego
Martin Schram: Congress fails students on loans
In a bipartisan act of calculated inaction and willful indifference, the Democrats and Republicans who run Congress passively allowed a key student loan interest rate for low- and middle-income students to double.
July 3, 2013 - Ventura County Star
How Watching an Avatar Can Help You Shed Pounds
Regardless of the actual health benefits exercise games actually provide, they promote good habits in their players. But what about for people that have never touched a video game before? A new paper published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Control suggests that even passively watching an avatar do healthy activities is doing some good.
July 3, 2013 - ABC News

Tom Lantos in Forbes
It is an outrage that only troops from the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom are deployed to the most hazardous spots,Lantos said. "No longer should this administration stand passively by while our...
John McCain in FOXNews
As president,McCain added, "I will not passively await the long overdue demise of the Castro dictatorship ...... The Cuban people have waited long enough."
Novak Djokovic in Reuters.uk
I'm not really happy with my performance today. I played pretty passively and he used it, he was taking chances and deserved to win the first set,said Djokovic, who was beaten by Nadal in the semi-finals last year.

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