abstractedly

Example Sentences

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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2011

A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half.

From Time Magazine Archive

Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Good,” said Syme abstractedly, without looking up from his strip of paper.

From "1984" by George Orwell