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Abstractedly

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ab·stract·ed  (b-strktd, bstrk-)
adj.
1. Removed or separated from something else; apart.
2. Lost or deep in thought; preoccupied.
ab·stracted·ly adv.
ab·stracted·ness n.
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Adv.1.Abstractedlyabstractedly - in an absentminded or preoccupied manner; "he read the letter absently"
absently, absentmindedly, inattentively
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He looked abstractedly from one to another, and said, in a lower voice, after a pause:
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Then, when he had finished, he went and leant on the cage of the watch-light, and gazed abstractedly on the ocean.
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murmured Pollyanna abstractedly, eyeing the clouds in her turn.
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