absent-minded
Example Sentences
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How could my absent-minded husband, with his piles of unfolded clothes, possibly have OCD?
From New York Times
Now imagine its inhabitants: “A fanciful, impulsive, childlike, absent-minded, capricious and ingenious people” who “composed irreverent jingles for their tombstones, made up jocular names for their villages and farms … and were continually deciding boundary lines, the locations of county seats and the ownership of plantations by flipping a coin.”
From New York Times
"They did such a great job satirizing modern parenting," said Tommy Dewey, who plays absent-minded dad Stu Pickles.
From Reuters
Ozick simultaneously builds suspense and provides comic relief by having the absent-minded Petrie repeatedly begin to spill the beans, then suddenly meander away to another topic.
From Washington Post
The narrator of “The Scapegoat,” at first, seems like your prototypical absent-minded professor: He’s employed at a prestigious university and keeps losing track of time, brooding over 30-year-old regrets.
From New York Times
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