Adverb
in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
Source: WordNethe read the letter absently Source: Internet
After conducting his business, the customer absentmindedly pockets the pen and walks off. Source: Internet
As she's helping the garden boy, Tom, dispose of the king's old belongings she finds a bag of plain gray stones which she absentmindedly pockets. Source: Internet
The " Alabama Song ", for example, can be picked up absentmindedly and hummed. Source: Internet
Challenged, Miss Prism explains that she had absentmindedly put the manuscript of a novel she was writing in the perambulator, and the baby in a handbag, which she had left at Victoria Station. Source: Internet
"Out in Jersey, I started buying old frames at flea markets, which inspired me to make my own with routered pine panels, almost absentmindedly, until it became a mania with me." Source: Internet