'absently' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who is not paying attention to the task or conversation at hand. Example sentence: She was sitting absently in the corner, her gaze lost in the distance.
Old men sit absently on benches or shuffle to the showers.
The child would say, "Can I have $10,000?" and her mother would reply, absently, "It's in my purse".
"Step out to symphonies," Marr dreams, absently dancing to his own glisteningly sunny riff.
Writer tells about using a kit to manufacture a virus he called "newyorker.com" which he mailed to himself and which he absently opened later, only to erase his hard drive….
Jessica didn't learn this appalling term until she'd already experienced it, stumbling absently onto the daybed with him.
When we spoke in his living room, he was barefoot and wearing sweatpants and an untucked shirt, and he kept absently picking up the automatic pistol that lay on the sofa beside him, then startling himself and setting it down again.
She folded the two sheets, fumbled absently for the envelope they should have been in, weren't, and with them in her hand left the boxes, the letters, Laila's apartment locked, behind the door.
Between phone calls, we absently flipped pages and sniffled for Tapka and for ourselves.
He's a seasoned performer here, though his energy level isn't as high as in the true Grant roles and he's a little cold, staring absently when he means to indicate serious thought.
Abuja was hot and steamy that morning, but, unaccountably, with the windows closed, Clinton absently reached up and, with a flick, shut off the air-conditioning.
The classic "Cinderella story" speech from "Caddyshack" had been written as an interstitial camera shot: Murray's character, the greenskeeper, was to be "absently lopping the heads off bedded tulips as he practices his golf swing with a grass whip".
