offhandedly

Example Sentences

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That’s been there for a while, an employee offhandedly informs him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Most people, I think, still have a positive association with the name, and Tupperware’s problem is that the company doesn’t actually get paid when someone offhandedly refers to their Rubbermaid or OXO container as “Tupperware.”

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2024

Tami Enright, the Bee Cause Project's current Director and I were offhandedly talking about how cool it would be to put beehives in 1000 schools.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2023

Even decades later, Hodes, now a historian at New York University, brought it up only with close friends, and then only offhandedly.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Later, I offhandedly asked Itchy if he was still mad.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover