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Definition of distractedly:
- Disjointedly; madly.
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He looks distractedly round him, wrenches open the door, and a moment later the street door is heard to shut with a bang.
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His stepmother evidently thought him stricken with sudden insanity and strove distractedly to select, from the heaped pile of her reasons for so thinking, some few which might be cited without too great offense to her brother's mode of life: Why, what a strange idea, Arnold!
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It was by the bonnet and dress, disordered though they were, rather than by the haggard face which looked distractedly around, that he recognized the woman to whom he replied in her own patois: It is the Rue Burgundy.