inattentively

Example Sentences

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“Drivers cannot be inattentively attentive,” they wrote online in September.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

“We tend to cover it poorly, fitfully, inattentively, in a fragmented and sporadic fashion, and usually when the news is always bad.”

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

Parents with children strapped to their backs wander inattentively between their seats and the concession stalls, and others chatter among friends as if they were watching a baseball game at neighboring Safeco Field.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

But they seem casually, even inattentively deployed, coming out not as formal homages to this or that master but as a function of temperament.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had made the same trip year after year, but always inattentively because there was someone else to worry about the mundane details while she dreamily watched the landscape out the window.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende