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Absentminded

adjective
1.
Lost in thought; showing preoccupation.  Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty.  "An absentminded professor" , "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"



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... was placid, motionless, almost absentminded. In spite of his rags, in spite of the misery stamped on his countenance, it gave evidence of noble pride. His eye had a stoical expression which no magistrate ought to have misunderstood; but as soon as a man has fallen into the hands of justice, he is no more ...
— Colonel Chabert • Honore de Balzac


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