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

On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one point, an elderly extra, abstractedly scratching her stomach, turned to one of the actresses and said: "Hey, didja ever see so many characters in one place?"

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