- a variation of absent-minded.
absentminded
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Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
Absentminded, he forgot to get his final papers by 1928 and again 1935, or he would be in no danger of deportation now.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the Tsar walked off the parade ground one afternoon, forgetting to give the command to halt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Absentminded, Freuchen tucked his pencil in his beard when preoccupied.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, I must have locked it out of habit. Absentminded and all that, you know?”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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