apathetically
advEtymology From apathetic + -ally.
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In an apathetic manner.
- Anatole and Dennis settled the question by throwing aside their upper garments; stripping, in fact, to their under drawers without troubling to ask permission from the ladies, who looked on apathetically as they crouched down on the sand close together and shivered under their skirt mantles. At a time like this the civilised and the savage approach one another very nearly.1895, James Hume Nisbet, The Great Secret:
- The fire-provider had failed. As he looked apathetically about him, his eyes chanced on the dog, sitting across the ruins of the fire from him, in the snow, making restless, hunching movements, slightly lifting one forefoot and then the other, shifting its weight back and forth on them with wistful eagerness.1910, Jack London, Lost Face:
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- "Not a bit of it!" exclaimed the Mosquito, "Did you ever hear that mosquitoes hunt elephants?" "It happens," apathetically answered the Oldest Elephant, "Although we try don't allow it." "People always accuse us, mosquitoes, of something," said the Mosquito, "Lunatics even had written in their history that one day some mad mosquitoes attacked them. But I'm not a mad mosquito!"1998, Andrei Lubensky, translated by Vitaly Lubensky, The Elemoont: