distractedly
Adverb
Meaning
Disjointedly; madly.
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`Come in,' he said distractedly
Will sprawls amid the sheets while Chloe rearranges her hair, and replaces earrings, reties her scarf, all these tasks executed distractedly but deftly, the small competencies of being a woman, skills unknowable to him.
Burgess has said of his largely solitary childhood: "I was either distractedly persecuted or ignored.
For instance, distractedly drumming ones fingers on the table seems to fall somewhere in the middle.
Maar distractedly said "Okay, I guess so.