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Synonyms for distrait

so lost in thought as to be unaware of one's surroundings

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Synonyms for distrait

having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety

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These include Leila's rather distrait, hippy-esque mother, Junior du Toit, a newspaper journalist who wears bright green trousers and runs the story in his paper and John, caretaker at the nearby bowls club who keeps an eye on them and lets them use the club loos.
[beaucoup moins que] Or, l'on constate que son implication anachronique dans la gestion et le financement du secteur marchand public le distrait de cette vocation qui est naturellement la sienne [beaucoup plus grand que], a-t-il constatAaAaAe
Dr Abdullah Al Nuaimi, director of Ras Al Khaimah medical distrait, said a medical team of nine doctors saved the life of the young man after an eight-hour operation which started at 12 midnight on November 23.
S'il est des sections de notre Code civil sur lesquelles les professeurs de droit contemporains et leurs etudiants--sans parler des responsables de la formation professionnelle--ne jettent qu'un oeil distrait et amuse, celle sur l'absence en fait (a l'instar des dispositions sur les tresors et l'affretement) tres certainement partie.
The judicial practice met some situations: persons with seized goods, as they were considered to belong to the culprit, but which, in fact, were their personal property; persons who for judicial violations were judicially unjustified fined; persons who were not summoned and which say that the seized goods, or put under distrait, are their property; the company which received a convicted in order to execute his punishment at the working place and which has not been asked anything about it; the company which received animals in custody, object of criminal action, in order to be given money for the custody period and the care of animals or the increase of such sum of money etc.
Un jour, pendant que le garcon assis a la gauche a ete distrait par une conversation, l'autre, " Justin ", ait pris un poil de son archet propre et l'a noue au coin de la partition de son ami (il etait perfore a trois trous).
Une idee singuliere se presente, un rapport bizarre distrait, et voila la tete perdue, on revient de la comme d'un reve.
The bur oak in the backyard waits-- We are all out of season, unkind in our distrait. ("Impedimenta") And it is not just Christianity's mythos Doran attempts to ground in earthly obsession, in earthly compassion, but other myths as well, including that of Atlantis.