as in casually
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Recent Examples of offhandedly
Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2025
The tragedy side of things is addressed rather offhandedly — occasionally the movie will remember the boggling grief and betrayal at its center, only to shrug it off again just as quickly.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offhandedly
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These pull-on style pants can easily be dressed down with a T-shirt to wear casually, or with a nice blouse or dress shirt and be boardroom-ready.—
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Dress casually for fun exercise and meet new, friendly people.—
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As flawed generative AI tools continue to be used carelessly, without the necessary follow-up work of checking for hallucinations, experts warn that agencies like NWS could inflict serious damage to their reputation and authority.—
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Florida has a prohibition on carelessly carrying a gun.—
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In its latest estimate, Foro Penal, an independent NGO that provides pro bono legal services to people detained arbitrarily, said more than 800 political prisoners were still behind bars.—
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France had maintained Vinatier was arbitrarily detained and had called for his release.—
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That means giving back, informally, to fulfill teachers’ wish lists and with the Eagles Autism Foundation.—
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So, is the idea to replicate the British pub experience of people discussing hot topics informally?—
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Built in 1891 and whimsically named The Barnacle because of its shape, the house is the oldest home in Miami-Dade County still standing on its original site on the bay.—
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Huffman recently whimsically hinted at his enthusiasm about representing new territory.—
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Mara, Lisa and Astrid say bizarre and unsettling things, their cruelty and spite sometimes offhand, sometimes calculated.—
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The Trolley Problem entails having to make difficult choices, contextually herein in the nature of driving decisions, and is often offhand dismissed by some as a misleading folly in the self-driving realm.—
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Rather than offering peace of mind from pest invasion, the chemical control process often leaves families feeling uneasy about what has been introduced so indiscriminately into their environment.—
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Over the years the pines could be indiscriminately cut down until Ellen Browning Scripps purchased what is now the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in 1908-1912.—
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“Offhandedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offhandedly. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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