Thesaurus / offhand
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A decade and a half later, the only rule I remember offhand is the one I always broke.
HOW (AND WHY) TO ADVENTURE SOLOAWISEAUGUST 7, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe 70-year-old humorist, commentator, chronically blocked writer, sometime actor and Manhattan fixture—a master of the short sentence as well as the offhand dismissal—was the subject of his HBO documentary Public Speaking, from 2010.
IN PRETEND IT’S A CITY, MARTIN SCORSESE SHARES THE PLEASURE OF FRAN LEBOWITZ’S COMPANYJUDY BERMANJANUARY 8, 2021TIMEI don’t think I really am that noisy, but offhand comments from the future in-laws have made me self-conscious.
WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT MALE SEX WORKERS?EUGENE ROBINSONSEPTEMBER 6, 2020OZYI didn't much like his offhand way of asking; not that it wasn't a perfectly legitimate query.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIROffhand, I would say that the train passed over his body some several hours after his death.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSBut he meets only with an offhand denial, couched in words of scant courtesy.
THE LAND OF FIREMAYNE REIDIt may strike the reader that an offhand statement like the foregoing relates to a proceeding of no special difficulty or peril.
THE LIFE OF KIT CARSONEDWARD S. ELLISShe could hardly be a woman if she did not; and in her airy, elusive, offhand demeanour she was very much of a woman indeed.
THE WELL-BELOVEDTHOMAS HARDY“Pretty offhand, that chap,” remarked Harry, as they walked along the broad dusty road towards the town.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORDAnd now this man with his offhand friendliness, who was thus holding him out a helping hand, seemed as an angel sent from heaven.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORDWORDS RELATED TO OFFHAND
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