The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstractedly \Ab*stract"ed*ly\, adv. In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Wiktionary
adv. In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. (First attested in the mid 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=10)
WordNet
adv. in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; "he read the letter absently" [syn: absently, inattentively, absentmindedly]
Usage examples of "abstractedly".
She was frowning as she looked up, but abstractedly, as if the worst news Claus might be bringing them would be of some potential distraction from their work.
She was frowning as she looked up, but abstractedly, as if the worst news Claus might be bringing them would be of some potential distraction from then-work.
For five minutes Condy had been picking it up and laying it down, frowning abstractedly at it during the pauses in the conversation.
Almost frightened by coming upon him so unexpectedly, I stood still for a moment and should have retired without speaking had he not, in again passing his hand abstractedly through his hair, seen me and started.
Valerie was not there, and Maltravers, left alone, after a hasty glance around the chamber, leaned abstractedly against the wall, and forgot, alas!
The men now appeared to forget the presence of Alice, who sat faint with fatigue and exhaustion, for she had been too sick at heart to touch the food brought to her at their previous halting-place, gazing abstractedly upon the fire.
I was determined never to visit Madame Orio's house, and on that very day I held an argument in metaphysics, in which I contended that any being of whom we had only an abstract idea, could only exist abstractedly, and I was right.
Abstractedly, TT~lniuth hacked the beetle off and turned it upward again.
Once with a dishclout in her hand, abstractedly wiping a white-speckled black tin frying pan as she stared.
Vance sauntered idly through the glass doors into the little reception hall, and stood gazing abstractedly at a console phonograph of Chinese Chippendale design which stood against the wall at one end.
Reynolds and Groves, unable to sleep, stood idly by the solitary window, gazing out abstractedly into the dimly-lit compound: they turned as Saunders removed his radio transmitter from its casing and made for the door.
Enderby, serving one morning abstractedly sloe gin to two customers, hit on a solution.
Raj replied abstractedly, watching out the window as the multicolored lights of East Residence swam by.