“Thank you,” she said absently.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Macmillan
— in a way that shows you are thinking about something else or are not listening
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Collins
— in an absent-minded or preoccupied manner; inattentively
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Usage
1 use of ‘absently’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster