inattentive

For the rest of lunch he was a little inattentive.

Maybe the scout had been inattentive, looking the wrong way.

There's definitely more than one reason why someone could be inattentive.

However, he was an inattentive student and thus received only three months of formal education.

Indeed, I was more than a little preoccupied and inattentive.

Yet the current technology often has the perverse effect of making everyone seem inattentive.

Early in the season, the team appeared inattentive, but now the players have their concentration back.

Decent service can be inattentive, particularly on the upper level.

"If the foster mother was inattentive, she should have been replaced."

The staff has a friendly manner, but is green and inattentive.

It made him aware of how inattentive most human beings were in general.

He relaxed, looking about the room, for that brief moment inattentive.

He was for some time inattentive to my questions.

Or maybe the local variety had been produced by an inattentive manufacturer.

But in part this is accidental, an effect of the novel's often inattentive language.

An inattentive declarer might think that he had seen the heart king.

She had never yet seen him so serious and so inattentive as he was now.

She wondered how much of children's activities inattentive adults missed.

Chang's father swore to never again be inattentive to his wife's needs.

I tried hard to teach her my sign language, but she was dull and inattentive.

When their turn to cross had come he was still perplexed and inattentive.

"Hard," maybe, and quick to catch when you were inattentive.

The guards the rebels had assigned to her were inattentive.

Two years ago, in the ninth grade, she was unhappy and inattentive.

Very quickly, children (and their sometimes inattentive parents) learn she is on their case.