Idly is valid Scrabble Word

Is idly a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is idly valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for IDLY in dictionary:

VERB:

In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

ADVERB:

IDLE, inactive
with no particular purpose, reason, or foundation
in an aimless or lazy way

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

in an idle manner

Words related to IDLY

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How to use IDLY in a sentence

Klake paddled swiftly out to sea, drawing as near as he dared to where the huge monster splashed idly up and down like a great puppy at play.
When A-pril skies be-gin to frown, And the cold rain comes pelt-ing down, We must not grum-ble nor com-plain, Nor i-dly say, we hate the rain.
Down the beach a horse was grazing, and he idly wondered where the others were.
He stood and stared at them absently while he idly smoked a cigarette.
Kingston Brooks, who had just left his doctor, turned into the Park and mingled idly with the throng of people.
They therefore remained in their hostelry, idly hoping, as men are so apt to do, and keeping alive the remembrance of their lost lord by lamentations.
For some time after his friend disappeared, the railroad man sat idly turning over the mass of papers accumulating on the desk.
He watched it idly, his mind upon the pile of unopened letters awaiting his attention.
Then, idly, indifferently, he went to the horse, which was standing perfectly still, though its flanks were still heaving.
She sat for a little while, her hands resting idly in her lap, or smoothing the creases out of her long, soft gloves.

She looked idly at the body of the dead man, and I was sure that she saw nothing but the worn woodwork of the floor.
It was not aware that, in a large city, crowds are chiefly composed of the unemployed and the idly curious.
Diana wondered idly whose car it could be, and it occurred to her that very probably it belonged to the strangers who had attended the service that morning.
The sand, however, was not conducive to rapid progress, and they were content to stroll idly.
She knew, without trying, that it would fit the box, but idly turned the lock.
They had rushed away so quickly that all of their firearms were in or near the tent, which was but partly raised, one end flapping idly in the faint breeze that was blowing.
Shifting his position slightly the lad saw what was left of his troop standing idly about.
No! We cannot assassinate the President, nor can we stand idly by while he is shot down.
Rather idly Tom looked down, wondering if the Secret Service men were on the watch and if they had discovered anything.
As she swung away into the canal, I saw the handsome lady idly looking on.
She wondered, as idly she suffered her fingers to wander, how long it would be before she played again.
A New York lawyer, gazing idly out of his window, saw a sight in an office across the street that made him rub his eyes and look again.
The wild oats drooped idly in the morning heat, or wrestled with the afternoon breezes.
A waiter stood on the verandah idly watching the birds as they pecked at the stones.

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