What is "distractedly"

Usage examples of "distractedly".

And from the way she stood at the passerelle, looking out across the Seine, her right elbow cupped in the palm of her left hand, gazing over the water, distractedly, I thought she really was Ananda.

The decor seemed appropriate in a way, because Gil the potboy had walked all the way there as slowly and distractedly as if he were in water over his head.

Steadman was already sketching distractedly, swilling beers at a feverish rate and muttering darkly to himself about the terrible conditions in the hotel and how earlier that morning while passing thru the coffee shop, a huge ceiling lamp had fallen from the ceiling and nearly killed him.

He distractedly consulted the TV between catnaps (and sometimes dreamed confusedly, incompletely, that the blond one of Cagney and Lacey was his girlfriend) but he waited now for Ginger to call him.

He waves the left arm distractedly, a gesture so earnest and unselfconscious that it completely disarms her.

Geirolf replied distractedly, fingering the various grades of abrasive paper piled up on shelf after shelf.

But when she issued forth again having put her charge under a soothe-sleep, she found only Trimble there, striding distractedly up and down, while the draft animal sampled the sweet, high-growing grass of the shrine field.

Arilan considered the suggestion, running his pectoral cross back and forth distractedly on its chain, then lowered his gaze.

He dug distractedly in a pocket for a half-bit trade token and dropped it onto her frayed carpet, and told Sagai, “He knows who I am, where we live.