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Значения термина absent-minded на английском

Inattentive to what is passing.

Использование термина absent-minded на английском
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Reverting to the desk, the manager appeared dazed and absent-minded as usual.
Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
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Harriwell called himself an absent-minded idiot and rushed for the gin bottle.
South Sea Tales
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Not that in the earlier stage he had seemed at all absent-minded.
Odd John
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They lunched together, the elder eager and confidential, the other respectful and-absent-minded.
Graustark
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He was wondering why he had ever considered the Head Master absent-minded.
Chatterbox, 1906
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It was an excellent gun for a clumsy and often absent-minded boy.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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Then I have to smile when I realize how absent-minded I was.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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I never saw a man look so haggard and worn and absent-minded.
Alonzo Fitz, and Other Stories
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He bade them an absent-minded farewell and went out into the corridor.
Silence of the grave
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He talked to us only a few minutes and he seemed absent-minded.
The Miller Of Old Church
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When the chief sat down, a very quiet, absent-minded old gentleman arose.
In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
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Kennicott had seemed nervous and absent-minded through that supper-hour, two evenings after.
Main Street
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He is very absent-minded nowadays, and does not attend to his work.
A Little Girl in Old Quebec
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She said nothing, wondering what had happened to render him so absent-minded.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
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Hayoue smiled good-naturedly, but looked rather indifferent or absent-minded as he replied,-
The Delight Makers
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What had become of the imperious absent-minded young woman of ordinary days?
Delia Blanchflower
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