0 not noticing what is going on around one because one is thinking deeply; forgetful -- pelupa
He is very absent-minded and is always forgetting where he has put things.
All of us know of some very hard and grievous cases, especially with old people who are absent-minded, where the case ought never to have been brought.
Will he further agree that shoplifting is an example of an offence in which the motives and circumstances can vary, from the persistent professional offender to the merely absent-minded?
He was one of these people who was readily identified as an infant prodigy, and was treated as such; and his defensive mechanism was to become appallingly absent-minded.
I am seeking to find a method which will not only reduce the number of mistakes by the absent-minded, but simultaneously deter the real thief.
This would deter some people from shoplifting and might prevent absent-minded people from putting goods into their own shopping baskets.
You would make a charming back bencher, a pillar of your party, and you would bask in the absent-minded smile of your leader.
It is generally accepted that self-service shopping has increased the opportunities for shoplifters as well as offering new hazards for the absent-minded.
The auditors were, to say the least, absent-minded.
