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
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
He was looking abstractedly toward, or over, the twin smokestacks up on the Sports Deck.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing abstractedly
