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distracted Adjective unable to concentrate because one's mind is on other things
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distracted adjective 1. agitated, troubled, confused, puzzled, at sea, bewildered, bemused, confounded, perplexed, flustered, in a flap (informal) Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects; others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions; others have fostered enmities against themselves; others have laid themselves out to gain over those whom they distrusted in the beginning of their governments; some have built fortresses; some have overthrown and destroyed them. THROUGH massacres of each other's citizens China and the United States had been four times plunged into devastating wars, when, in the year 1994, arose a Philosopher in Madagascar, who laid before the Governments of the two distracted countries the following MODUS VIVENDI: he is much distracted by jealousy, which I am not sorry for, as I know no better support of love. |
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