All 4 Uses of
preoccupied
in
Bleak House
- She was so preoccupied that at first she did not know me, though she sat looking at me with that curious, bright-eyed, far-off look of hers.†
Chpt 22-24
- "Oh, Caddy, you really are an absurd girl," returned Mrs. Jellyby, "to ask such questions after what I have said of the preoccupation of my mind."†
Chpt 22-24 *
- I could not wonder at this after the reception his preoccupied mind had given to my guardian's letter, but I determined to try Ada's influence yet.†
Chpt 37-39
- How much less amiable I must have been than they thought me, how much less amiable than I thought myself, to be so preoccupied with my own cheerfulness and contentment as to think that it only rested with me to put my dear girl right and set her mind at peace!†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done