absently
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈæb.sn̩t.li/
absently
- In an absent-minded or abstracted manner. [From the late 18th century.]
- 1773, P.L.B., “A Character,” The Sentimental Magazine, June, 1773, p. 179,
- When he is in company he will sit absently muttering over a heap of Arabick, or in a Ciceronian attitude, declaim with all the vehemency of eloquence […]
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
- […] his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, 1992, Part One, Chapter 1, p. 38,
- Absently, he picked a dew-wet leaf from the hibiscus shrub, crushed it in his palm, put it in his mouth and came towards her, chewing.
- 1773, P.L.B., “A Character,” The Sentimental Magazine, June, 1773, p. 179,
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