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distrait

adjective as in absent-minded

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Looking more than a little distrait, she paused just long enough to push downward on Bloomberg’s roving hindquarters.

Though weary and distrait, Margu�rite Garth was of too frank a disposition to allow such an extraordinary incident to pass without comment.

But Kipps was distrait for some seconds, perhaps, and the mischief had begun in him.

This answer relieved the worst of my anxieties, but the manner of the speaker was so distrait and so much at variance with the studied insouciance which he usually affected, that I only grew more alarmed.

Slyne grew somewhat distrait and restless as the long dinner ran its course, and Carthew had to devote more attention to the duchess.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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