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absent-mindedly

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ab·sent-mind·ed (bsnt-mndd)
adj.
Deep in thought and heedless of present circumstances or activities; preoccupied.

absent-minded·ly adv.
absent-minded·ness n.
Translations
absent-mindedly [ˈæbsəntˈmaɪndɪdlɪ] ADVdistraídamente
absent-mindedly
adv behavezerstreut; look(geistes)abwesend; he absent-mindedly forgot itin seiner Zerstreutheit hat er es vergessen
absent-mindedly [ˌæbsntˈmaɪndɪdlɪ] advdistrattamente


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Daylight hefted it absent-mindedly, and, still absent-mindedly, untied the strings and ran some of the gold-dust out on his palm.
A plowman was skinning his farm one morning--not the steepest part of it, but still a steep part--that is, he was not skinning the front of his farm, but the roof of it, near the eaves--when he absent-mindedly let go of the plow-handles to moisten his hands, in the usual way; he lost his balance and fell out of his farm backward; poor fellow, he never touched anything till he struck bottom, fifteen hundred feet below.
Foinet stood for a moment in front of Clutton's work, biting his thumb silently, then absent-mindedly spat out upon the canvas the little piece of skin which he had bitten off.
 
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