This time he responded to my hug, but in an automatic and absent-minded way.

The naked man took it in an absent-minded way.

We find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way and reward cleverness to the further detriment of true artists.

Goldman nodded to them in an absent-minded way.

He shook hands with the boys in an absent-minded way.

Limbeck's girlfriend, who must constantly deal with his absent-minded ways.

Wi, who was thinking of other things, asked in an absent-minded way what hut was empty.

"Yes," said the other in his curious, absent-minded way, "I know where he is myself."

There were so many absent-minded, well-intentioned ways a man could kill himself.

She started to swing the kettle in an absent-minded way.