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absently

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absently
adverb
Hilary absently took the glass he was holding out:
distractedly, inattentively, abstractedly, unheedingly, carelessly, absentmindedly, on automatic pilot;
dreamily, with one's head in the clouds, in a world of one's own, lost in thought;
blankly, vacuously.
antonyms attentively.
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