abstractedly
Example Sentences
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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.
From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2011
And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He was looking abstractedly toward, or over, the twin smokestacks up on the Sports Deck.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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