All 10 Uses of
preoccupied
in
The House of Mirth
- She had again addressed herself to the shelves, but her eyes now swept them inattentively, and he saw that she was preoccupied with a new idea.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Lily, therefore, had not only contrived to put herself in the young man's way, but had made the acquaintance of Mrs. Gryce, a monumental woman with the voice of a pulpit orator and a mind preoccupied with the iniquities of her servants, who came sometimes to sit with Mrs. Peniston and learn from that lady how she managed to prevent the kitchen-maid's smuggling groceries out of the house.†
Chpt 1.2
- Miss Bart was a keen reader of her own heart, and she saw that her sudden preoccupation with Selden was due to the fact that his presence shed a new light on her surroundings.†
Chpt 1.5
- In town she returned to preoccupations which, for the moment, had the happy effect of banishing troublesome thoughts.†
Chpt 1.12
- He yielded himself to the charm of trivial preoccupations, wondering at what hour her reply would be sent, with what words it would begin.†
Chpt 1.14
- At first, as Selden had noticed, it had been almost too preoccupying to its wearer; but now she was in full command of it, and was even producing her effects with unwonted freedom.†
Chpt 2.3
- But he let it be felt that that intimacy was a mere ripple on the surface of a rushing social current, the kind of relaxation which a man of large interests and manifold preoccupations permits himself in his hours of ease.†
Chpt 2.5
- Society did not turn away from her, it simply drifted by, preoccupied and inattentive, letting her feel, to the full measure of her humbled pride, how completely she had been the creature of its favour.†
Chpt 2.8
- He was too busy, too practical, and above all too much preoccupied with his own advancement, to indulge in such unprofitable asides.†
Chpt 2.11
- But the sallow preoccupied women, with their bags and note-books and rolls of music, were all engrossed in their own affairs, and even those who sat by themselves were busy running over proof-sheets or devouring magazines between their hurried gulps of tea.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(preoccupied) busy thinking about or doing something so that other things are not noticed or done