| He was a kind and absentminded man, and on the night when he was stabbed there was a sort of requiem for him in the heating system. |
| There can be increased forgetting as people grow older – for example, forgetting names or being absentminded. |
| Some of his friends saw in this allergy to money the absentminded unworldliness of the artist. |
| He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor. |
| The young man recovered himself from his absentminded stare in the direction Grace had taken, with a frank laugh. |
| Should have remembered to bring a flashlight, but he was old and absentminded, and there was no one to remind him. |
