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Indolently

Indolently \In"do*lent*ly\, adv. In an indolent manner.

Calm and serene you indolently sit.
--Addison.

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indolently

adv. In an indolent manner.

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indolently

adv. in an indolent manner; "he lives indolently with his relatives"

Usage examples of "indolently".

Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck.

Sgt Henderson grinned and leaned back on his elbow indolently 554 1 and put his right hand in his pocket.

For a time they looked down at the town, the millrace flashed in the sunlight, a wagon drove slowly over the stone bridge, and below the weir a gaggle of white geese swam indolently to and fro.

Theos sank unresistingly into a low, velvet-cushioned chair richly carved and inlaid with ivory, and stretching his limbs indolently therein, surveyed with new and ever-growing admiration the supple, elegant figure of his host, who, throwing himself full length on a couch covered with leopard-skins, folded his arms behind his head, and eyed his guest with a complacent smile of vanity and selfapproval.

The great crime of Claudius or of Nero was that they indolently allowed their slaves and freedmen to take on these roles of agent and representative of the master, or to serve him as counselor.

Then he threw his fingers open in vexation and raised the arm indolently across his chest, the smile broadening.

He lounged indolently in his seat, long and elegant fingers toying with the stem of a glass goblet of conjured wine.

It seems you already embrace the truth,” Radburn Blakely said as he leaned indolently against the gate.

Not meeting my gaze, she lay on her back and indolently ate a bamboo shoot, looking at the ceiling as she chewed.

He lay against the leather cushions of the landau and laughed to himself, tossing a revolver high into the air and catching it again, his feet in their shining black boots crossed indolently on the coach box.

The girl thinned her lips at him, shrugged, indolently put down her crochet hook and took up her clothes.

F'nor, his smile brightening as he took heed which ladies Fax preferred to keep anonymous, lounged indolently by the doorway.

One of them, a stubble-faced man in a patched cloak and rusty breastplate, indolently rose, stepped into the middle of the road, and held up one beefy hand.