disconnectedly

Example Sentences

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"Mad Men" has always been fascinating for the oblique way the characters interact, connecting disconnectedly, often talking past each other in cryptic interchanges, with the viewer invited to fill in the gaps.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2013

Only four clean blows were struck, all by Wills, and those disconnectedly.

From Time Magazine Archive

They stood out in his mind disconnectedly, like pictures with blackness all round them.

From "1984" by George Orwell

My action . . . my—the painful word formed as disconnectedly as her wobbly smile—my responsibility?

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

He studied the carpet intently and suddenly asked quite disconnectedly: "Hartmut, how do you do when you compose poetry?"

From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)