absentminded
- a variation of absent-minded.
Example Sentences
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How nervy — or maybe just absentminded — to rep the Chiefs in this Philadelphia suburb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Black voters outside the South, however, will remind an absentminded nation that black voters in no one state speak for the group as a whole.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2020
Even when Ruck is tossed into the fray, he’s more of an absentminded buffer than anything else.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2018
If you're as absentminded as me, there is every danger of leaving it on a train or in a taxi.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2014
He was that kind of kid, absentminded, and very smart, and later in life he became a chemist.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
