abstractedly

ADVERB
  1. in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
    he read the letter absently
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How To Use abstractedly In A Sentence

  • ‘OK Timmy, go show your sister,’ Mrs. Davison said abstractedly, putting a hand on Timmy's shoulder and pushing him gently into the living room.
  • As he read, he abstractedly ran his fingers, with a caressing movement, through his hair. Chapter 31
  • These last may be termed abstractedly and simply friends, the former as Ethics
  • His matter quite apart -- and it is always interesting -- and abstractedly from his pervasive pleasantry, which is always original, it is a wonder that he is not more esteemed than he is in an age which professes to set store by style. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • 'Well, you will allow me to say this, since I say it without reference to your personality or to mine -- that the Power and De Stancy families are the complements to each other; and that, abstractedly, they call earnestly to one another: "How neat and fit a thing for us to join hands!"' A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
  • Belden abstractedly began to light his pipe, which had failed to go out, and then brightened up with, "How 'bout yerself, stranger, — married man? To The Man on the Trail
  • Regan gazed abstractedly up at the ceiling, puffing away at his cigar.
  • In the title sequence, a woman who's neither young nor truly old gyrates mysteriously and abstractedly in the middle of a wheat field. 'Green Zone': Thrills Vie With Speechifying
  • She was perhaps only a little less irritating than the man who became so unconscious in the habit of inattention that on one occasion his converser had scarcely finished when he began abstractedly: "Yes, very odd, very odd," and told the identical anecdote all over again. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
  • Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
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