Meanings of absent-minded way in English

Von Dresslin twirled his flower and looked at it in an absent-minded way.

The duke glanced in an absent-minded way at the sheet the doctor handed him.

They sat down side by side, Father Beret fingering the letter in an absent-minded way.

In his absent-minded way he threw it towards the fire, but it fell on the tiled hearth.

And the great artist looked out of the window in an absent-minded way, and hummed a tune.

Helen glanced up in her absent-minded way.

Mary smiled again in an absent-minded way.

Cora replied in an absent-minded way.

It was something that Moseh did, in an absent-minded way, whenever he was afraid of getting a raw deal.

For a while he paid me no attention, save in an absent-minded way to pat my arm and say, 'There, there, child!

Papa Plantat, while listening in an apparently absent-minded way to these depositions, or rather these scandals, carefully examined the wall and the gate.

Touclé was preparing to depart in the silent, unceremonious, absent-minded way she did everything, as though she were the only person in the world.

At last, finding nothing to alarm them, in an absent-minded way one of the two went down the slide, splash into the cool brown water.

The Chief Commissioner had come close, to hear; was stroking her shoulder, in fact-inan absent-mindedway-shaking his head.

"Von Tirpitz" was going round in an absent-minded way, pulling at his long whiskers.

"Oh, no; everything is going on all right," she replied, in an absent-minded way.