distrait

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Walter, distrait, ignoring the living Florence and her unborn child, arranges for a quick trip to Switzerland.

From Time Magazine Archive

The symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney.

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She plays a fascinating and distrait Princess of a mythical European country who is by way of being temporarily bored with her Royal Family.

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Yusupov, still deathly sick, looked at me with a distrait air, but obeyed.

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Looking more than a little distrait, she paused just long enough to push downward on Bloomberg’s roving hindquarters.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger