distracting

Therefore did she smile at Captain Middleton in this distracting fashion.

But is it not distracting to the conscience of a man to be told that in the particular case they are opposed?

Charles Wilcox had not yet rung him up for the distracting interview.

At first Lydia did not half listen, knowing his purpose in distracting her.

The worst had happened; other and distracting interests were dead.

He must by some means or other attend to them in all their distracting individuality.

Many times this distracting thought drove me almost to madness.

How—how should these distracting circumstances be brought to an end?

He writes to distracting lengths; and, worst of all, his harmonies are hideous.

Such was the suspense, the distracting doubt which yet clung to me.