distractedly
English
editEtymology
editdistracted + -ly
Adverb
editdistractedly (comparative more distractedly, superlative most distractedly)
- In a distracted manner.
- 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 147:
- [S]he flaps distractedly past us in a splather of muddy spume.