abstractedly

Translation

adv. in a distracted or absent-minded manner

Example Sentences

She stared abstractedly out the window.

He nodded his head abstractedly while reading the report.

She doodled abstractedly during the meeting.

He answered the question abstractedly, not fully focused.

She hummed abstractedly while working on her painting.

He walked abstractedly down the street, lost in thought.

She played with her hair abstractedly while talking on the phone.

He gazed abstractedly at the painting, lost in its beauty.

She tapped her pen abstractedly on the table, deep in thought.

He ate his lunch abstractedly, preoccupied with his upcoming presentation.

Real-world Examples

'It was—simply amazing, ' she repeated abstractedly.

Source: The Great Gatsby (Original Version)

He stood in the middle of the kitchen, the statue of Adonis again, staring abstractedly out the back windows.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

I pulled away sandspurs abstractedly as I carried out the watering pot.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

Knight took the missive abstractedly, but struck by its appearance murmured a few words and left the room.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

Abstractedly she watched the dancers for a few moments, commenting murmurously as a couple eddied near.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

Jude was longer finishing his, and stood abstractedly silent in the, for the minute, almost empty place.

Source: The Unnamed Jude (Middle)

Anne gave herself up to a silent rapture over the shore road and Marilla guided the sorrel abstractedly while she pondered deeply.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

Whilst she abstractedly watched them spinning and fluctuating in the increasing moonlight she suddenly heard her name whispered by a voice over her shoulder.

Source: Returning Home

'Yes; he's my boy, ' replied Sikes, looking hard at Oliver, and putting his hand abstractedly into the pocket where the pistol was.

Source: Oliver Twist (Original Version)

He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.

Source: Returning Home

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