bovinely

Adverb

bovinely (comparative more bovinely, superlative most bovinely)

1. In a herd-following or crowd-following manner: without originality or critical thinking.
   • […] bovinely occupying herself with church, hospital, Red Cross. I say "bovinely" in the sense of following the herd unquestioningly. That's what all her friends did, with time out for occasional bridge and luncheons.1961, Jane Rothschild Mayer, The Listening Heart, Crown Publishers, page 224
2. Sluggishly; indifferently; vacantly.
   • Curiosity carries many of the daily tally of loungers to the Battery, idleness many others, laziness and hopelessness most of the rest. For the curious there is the seething activity of the vast port of New York […] The idle find the warm hours pass without irk in the salt breeze and bright...1922 November, A.E. Dingle, “A Bride from the Sea: A Complete Novelette—The Strange Cruise of the Seafarer and Her Crew of a Sailor, a Landsman, and a Girl”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 77, number...