adverb
- in a scatterbrained, absent-minded, or slightly eccentric manner
Usage: informal; derived from the adjective 'dotty'
Examples
- She dottily forgot her keys three times in one morning.
- He smiled dottily as he wandered through the garden, lost in thought.
- The elderly professor dottily mixed up his lecture notes.
- She dottily hummed to herself while organizing the files.
- He dottily agreed to the plan without reading the details.