abstractedly

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He shook hands with us hastily and abstractedly, and asked if he might speak to me inside the house.

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  1. In an abstracted or absent manner.
  2. In the abstract; in a separated state, or in contemplation only. It may indeed be difficult for those who have but little faith in the invisible … to give up their own power of judging what seems best, from the belief that that only is best which is abstractedly right. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 57.

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  • He still spoke abstractedly, as if even now he were thinking of something else He began to take out of the leathern satchel various bags of money Shall I help you to count it She often did so They counted the flimsy dirty paper-money together, and put it all back into the various labelled bags It comes right," he said Suddenly she said, "But you can't pay it into the bank to-morrow if you go to I know," he said looking at her; "that is what I have been thinking of ever since I heard Philip's news. —  The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
  • She received them abstractedly, as if she were thinking silent vows. —  The Judge
  • Damn those Dutchmen He spoke abstractedly, as though voicing his inner thoughts to himself, unconscious of his companion. —  The Rules of the Game
  • He turned to Mirah, who was listening with a blind look in her lovely eyes It must be that, because you understand me, but I cannot quite explain," said Mirah, rather abstractedly--still searching for some expression But was it beautiful for Buddha to let the tiger eat him?" —  Daniel Deronda
  • His eyes wandered about abstractedly, and fell again upon Elise's mother sleeping, unconscious of the awful peril passed, and the painful salvation come to her daughter The blue-grey light of morning showed under the edge of the closed window-blind. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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