abstractedly
Example Sentences
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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.
From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2011
A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burly, hunched Ernst Reuter still sat in his center loge, his eyes bright, abstractedly beating time with nicotine-stained forefinger to some passage of the music that had died.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zooey was now gazing abstractedly at an old root-beer stain on the ceiling plaster, which he himself had made nineteen or twenty years earlier, with a water pistol.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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