purblindly
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John Peter looked purblindly about him, rubbing his spectacles with a thread-bare coat-tail.
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
He was looking purblindly down the shabby street, its hard crisp snow littered with tin cans, paper, bits of slop and offal.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
I declare," said Penelope, where she sat purblindly sewing on a bit of dress for Irene, "the Colonel's clothes are as much trouble as anybody's.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
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