Adverb
In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.
Source: Webster's dictionarythis is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people Source: Internet
As a mother, I am not going to sit quietly and idly by while my child, any of my children, is assaulted by anyone, let alone their own father. Source: Internet
As he idly broadcasts on his shortwave radio, someone identifying herself as "Peewee" answers and requests a homing signal. Source: Internet
As our forests burn, as our cities become choked under smoke, as our Earth becomes increasingly uninhabitable, we cannot sit idly by. Source: Internet
“It is not enough to make promises, then you go back and look idly and allow vandals, bandits, thugs that were used in Kano, Ekiti, Osun to come and cause mayhem in Edo state. Source: Internet
In one of these racist posters (see above), a black man is depicted lounging idly in the foreground as one white man ploughs his field and another chops wood. Source: Internet