So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He scribbled the appointment on his shirt-cuff and hurried off in his strange, peering, absent-minded fashion.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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— lost in thought and unaware of one’s surroundings or actions : PREOCCUPIED
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— likely to forget things or to think about something different from what you should be thinking about
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4 uses of ‘absent-minded’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle