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offhanded

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  offhanded 
  adj  1:  with  little  or  no  preparation  or  forethought;  "his  ad-lib 
  comments  showed  poor  judgment";  "an  extemporaneous 
  piano  recital";  "an  extemporary  lecture";  "an 
  extempore  skit";  "offhand  excuses";  "trying  to  sound 
  offhanded  and  reassuring";  "an  off-the-cuff  toast";  "a 
  few  unrehearsed  comments"  [syn:  {ad-lib},  {extemporaneous}, 
  {extemporary},  {extempore},  {offhand},  {off-the-cuff}, 
  {unrehearsed}] 
  2:  casually  thoughtless  or  inconsiderate;  "an  offhand  manner"; 
  "she  treated  most  men  with  offhand  contempt"  [syn:  {offhand}] 
  adv  1:  without  previous  thought  or  preparation;  "couldn't  give  the 
  figures  offhand";  "we  decided  offhand  to  go  to 
  Canada";  "she  had  made  these  remarks  offhandedly" 
  [syn:  {offhand},  {offhandedly}] 
  2:  in  a  casually  inconsiderate  manner;  "replied  offhand,  his 
  mind  a  million  miles  away";  "she  threw  him  over 
  offhandedly  without  even  a  Dear-John  letter"  [syn:  {offhand}, 
  {offhandedly}]




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