/?ɑ?f?h?n.d?d.li/in a way that does notseemto show muchinterestorcarefulthought:漫不经心地;怠慢地He offhandedlymentionedhisinterestto hisboss.他不经意间对他老板提到了他的兴趣。Shespokealmostoffhandedly.她几乎是脱口而出。SeeoffhandMore examples
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See more results ?(Definition ofoffhandedlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoffhandedly
offhandedlyThey carried themselvesoffhandedly, like connoisseurs and braggarts.From theCambridge English CorpusWhat took a century and a half to build up is in danger of beingoffhandedlydemolished in a decade and a half.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0One review notes that it easily and off-handedly incorporates funk and rock elements without becoming a collection that is dominated by a backbeat aesthetic.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/offhandedly##