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Absentmindedly

adverb
1.
In an absentminded or preoccupied manner.  Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively.





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"Absentmindedly" Quotes from Famous Books



... to foresee the end. It was anybody's game. Crass became so excited that he absentmindedly opened his mouth and shot his second pint down into his stomach with a single gulp, and Bundy also drained his glass and called upon Philpot and Easton to drink up and have ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
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... in the act of helpin' herself to the jelly omelet, usin' a swell silver servin' shovel about half the size of a brick layer's trowel. She's so stirred up that she absentmindedly scoops up a double portion, and just as Bob springs his remark what does she do but up and let fly at him, right across the table. Maybe she'd have winged him too,—and served him right for saying what no gentleman should to a lady, even if ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
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... through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs' bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
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... room to room, glancing absentmindedly about him; he mixed neither in the talk of the hunters nor in that of the old men, and evidently had something else on his mind. He carried a leather flapper; sometimes he would stop, meditate long, and—kill a fly on ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz
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