distracting
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Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus.
- Sending a text message was considered to be the most distracting activity to perform while driving. From the list, the least distracting activity was having a conversation with a passenger.2006, Daniel M. Sturnquist, Mobile Phones and Driving, page 51:
- Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).2007, Cheryl Smith ·, Visiting the Dog Park: Having Fun, Staying Safe, page 42:
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- Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.2020, Sharese Dawkins, Do's and Don'ts to a Better Way of Living:
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Diverting
- Derived terms
- distractingly, nondistracting, undistracting