abstractedly

• “She pronounced the name abstractedly, for she was surprised at the admission.”

  The Trail to Yesterday

• “Mrs. Rossitur took up the magazine again abstractedly, and read –”

  Queechy

• “These last may be termed abstractedly and simply friends, the former as”

  Ethics

• “Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_.”

  An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality

• “As he read, he abstractedly ran his fingers, with a caressing movement, through his hair.”

  Chapter 31

• “Belden abstractedly began to light his pipe, which had failed to go out, and then brightened up with, "How 'bout yerself, stranger, — married man?”

  TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL

• “And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate

• “In the title sequence, a woman who's neither young nor truly old gyrates mysteriously and abstractedly in the middle of a wheat field.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Green Zone': Thrills Vie With Speechifying

• “Its title comes from the sign that hangs, almost abstractedly, from a fence in the foreground.”

  The Washington Post: 'See Something? Say Something!' at American University's Katzen Arts Center; Â?Informed Design' at Long View Gallery

• “When absolutely nutcase elected officials say dangerously radical things, decent liberals turn their head and whistle abstractedly, just shrugging this off and telling themselves that there are very few.”

  Prager on the 2010 election

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