| These children are quickly seen as unintelligent, lazy, unruly or absentminded and soon find themselves left behind. |
| 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. |
| In the absence of a formal diagnosis, individuals affected by Asperger syndrome may be perceived as simply absentminded, socially and physically awkward, or highly intelligent. |
| But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? |
| There can be increased forgetting as people grow older – for example, forgetting names or being absentminded. |
| He has a jolly, ready laugh and mannerisms like an absentminded professor. |
