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    offhand


    1. He most offhand almost told me to leave his father alone


    2. offhand excuse for a service in which only a few of the


    3. Didi said it in a manner so offhand that it


    4. But he has complimented me on my appearance once in a while in an offhand fashion


    5. What then? What reason did he really have for rejoining the modern world? He couldn’t think of one offhand, but he still had to get back


    6. Luka had, at Max’s offhand request, joined us on the couch with a platter of food


    7. The Degaud Massacre was a dark piece of town history that was only told in an offhand way, it wasn't something that was dwelt upon


    8. conversation, this nice woman said to me, in an offhand manner,


    9. Small and buxom, she was not unattractive when you bothered to examine her, which one was loath to do offhand


    10. With this idea I pressed him to read the beginning, and doing so, turning the Arabic offhand into Castilian, he told me it meant, "History of Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian

    11. "There is no need of threats with me," said Sancho, "for I am not a man to rob or murder anybody; let his own fate, or God who made him, kill each one; my master is engaged very much to his taste doing penance in the midst of these mountains;" and then, offhand and without stopping, he told them how he had left him, what adventures had befallen him, and how he was carrying a letter to the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo, with whom he was over head and ears in love


    12. She presented herself at his place with an offhand air


    13. Rodolphe, who had managed the fatality, thought the remark very offhand from a man in his position, comic even, and a little mean


    14. But he was often short and offhand with her


    15. And how I resented the offhand manner in which the captain had extended his deplorable invitation! You would have thought it was an issue of going into the woods on some harmless fox hunt!


    16. I walked up and down the aisles looking at things I couldn’t have, stupefied by their offhand plenitude


    17. He didn’t have the number offhand, but it was easy enough to find, and so my next step was to talk to the owner, a guy named Joe Henderson


    18. He couldn’t remember the address offhand, but told the operator Maria’s parents’ names, as well as the street and cross street


    19. Then I thought about Sam and wondered whether my offhand reference to a relationship had been wise


    20. “Oh!” said Melanie, still more embarrassed by Belle’s offhand reference to her “girls

    21. He should be offhand and careless, as other men callers


    22. He did not even come to her to give her his usual offhand kiss but stood looking at her, with a grin, a


    23. "I merely mean," said Will, in an offhand way, "that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping about in woods with a pocket-compass while they have made good roads


    24. Casaubon, who received this offhand treatment of symbolism very uneasily, and bowed with a neutral air


    25. Lydgate was as polite as he could be in his offhand way, but politeness in a man who has placed you at a disadvantage is only an additional exasperation, especially if he happens to have been an object of dislike beforehand


    26. ) It was weird to hear colleagues refer to me as one of the “easy” correspondents, or make offhand comments about how relatively mellow I was


    27. The jury will disregard the witness’s offhand remarks


    28. He was partnered with Kyle Robertson, who joined Robbery, don’t remember when offhand, but before that he was in uniform since the Flood


    29. ‘Is it warm enough for you yet?’ Thaniel said, trying to sound offhand


    30. " He was surprised at my knowledge of the trains offhand, but he does not know that I have made up all the trains to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in case he is in a hurry

    31. Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more


    32. Mrs Duveen had not been able to give Joe Harman's address offhand, but she confirmed that he was managing a station somewhere in the Gulf country


    33. “But listen,” he shouted to the guard, “there’s a whole world you don’t know anything about… here how about this?” Desperately he grabbed for the only bit of culture he knew offhand – he hummed the first bar of Beethoven’s Fifth


    34. The previous month, Fermina Daza had spoken about him, in an offhand way and with no sign of interest, one afternoon when she did not want to pass by the house of the Marquis de Casalduero because the landau with the golden horses was stopped in front of the door


    35. I could not dream of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion


    36. “I can't help it, I am not God!” the doctor answered offhand, though with the customary impressiveness


    37. Sees SAHÁTOF and addresses him in an offhand manner


    38. Natásha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more


    39. It is not against the rules to invite strangers, but they can’t be invited offhand


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    Synonymes pour "offhand"

    offhand offhanded ad-lib extemporaneous extemporary extempore impromptu off-the-cuff unrehearsed offhandedly abrupt cavalier curt short casual unprepared spontaneous unstudied unpremeditated improvised