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- adverb Alternative form of
absent-mindedly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
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Examples
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Although at moments he saw in imagination the romance of the fact that England had acquired an Empire "absentmindedly" through Englishmen with the solitary spirit of adventure and discovery, yet he had an unfortunate habit of abusing the Dominions.
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I wore the book as much as I read it, 'absentmindedly' holding it in one hand on the street even when I was carrying a satchel of books in the other, 'casually' parking it atop my notebook next to my coffee cup wherever I sat.
Essayistic Jenny Davidson 2005
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I wore the book as much as I read it, 'absentmindedly' holding it in one hand on the street even when I was carrying a satchel of books in the other, 'casually' parking it atop my notebook next to my coffee cup wherever I sat.
Archive 2005-09-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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Although at moments he saw in imagination the romance of the fact that England had acquired an Empire "absentmindedly" through Englishmen with the solitary spirit of adventure and discovery, yet he had an unfortunate habit of abusing the Dominions.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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"Maybe -- maybe they did it kind of absentmindedly," Pee-Wee said.
Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs 'bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
Anne of Green Gables 1908
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Barry "absentmindedly" gets Hal the cereal that Hal hates.
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"absentmindedly" holding it in one hand on the street even when I was carrying a satchel of books in the other, "casually" parking it atop my notebook next to my coffee cup wherever I sat.
A Striped Armchair 2009
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It was a good thing that I won the big prize because I had absentmindedly overlooked applying to college!
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In a manner very similar to how radical Muslims take passages out of context, conservative Christians absentmindedly forget to read the entire chapter.
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