supinely

IPA: sʌpˈaɪnɫi

Examples of "supinely" in Sentences

He challenged them not to “sit supinely” while depredation ravaged their city.
No one should supinely accept the ordinary form of Mass when it is used as a vehicle for liturgical abuse.
Lingerie-wearing vixens lounge supinely in intimate rooms with all the comforts of home, or gather in groups for after-hour parties at dimly-lit bars.
Broadcasters and sponsors need to be made aware that viewers won't just lie down and supinely take this: You cannot ruin my pleasure in the sport I love and get away with it.
Having the Senate go from supinely emulating the Weimar Reichstag's Enabling Act (with infinitely less excuse than the Germans) to becoming themselves the defier of constitutional constraints.
Yet, in advance of any attempt at negotiation upon it with the EU, they have supinely surrendered the one weapon which strikes terror into the heart of everyone with the EuroPox: the Referendum.
No matter how many conservative voices you put on the op-ed page or on the air, no matter how supinely you adopt the idiotic notion that every dispute has two equally plausible sides, liberal is what you'll be called.