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Recent Examples of offhandedly
America is offhandedly disregarding science.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.
—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
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.
—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
Adverb
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For a day trip, casually head to one of the world’s natural wonders, only 18 miles away, to Yellowstone National Park.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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Perry looked casually cute for her day in the park and wore a white T-shirt with khaki slacks.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
Adverb
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But also just a touch ironic — like a man handing out fire safety pamphlets while carelessly flipping burgers over a bonfire on his porch.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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The days of carelessly grabbing your beach bag, towel, and bikini and heading to the beach are long gone.—
Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
Adverb
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Treating rewards as something people can reliably hold, exchange, and use across a brand’s broader partners and ecosystems, rather than a balance that can be arbitrarily revised, changes the relationship between customer and issuer.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Discretion exercised arbitrarily undermines it.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Daily News,
3 June 2026
Adverb
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The experts said the therapy, known informally as TRT, has been underutilized due to outdated concerns about risks of prostate cancer, stroke and heart disease.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
10 Dec. 2025
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Most informally, among the royal family and in her royal duties, the princess prefers to be known simply as Catherine.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
17 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Out in the high desert near Cabazon, my favorite stops are Hadley’s Fruit Orchards, home of the famous Hadley date shakes, and the whimsically Cabazon Dinosaur sculptors.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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No landlord would allow an occupant to change his property without approval, let alone whimsically destroy a third of it.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Mara, Lisa and Astrid say bizarre and unsettling things, their cruelty and spite sometimes offhand, sometimes calculated.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Apr. 2022
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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.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
1 Nov. 2021
Adverb
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This surveillance network indiscriminately records millions of trips every month, whether people are on their way to work, dropping their kids off at school, seeking health care, going to a place of worship or attending a protest.—
Lisa Femia,
Mercury News,
6 Dec. 2025
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Everyone puts lotion on everyone, people get horny and kiss indiscriminately.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
25 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Permits that are granted and withdrawn capriciously, tax credits that come and go, technologies that fall in or out of favor in successive administrations, and endless legal battles all amount to dangerous barriers to investment.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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That standard would uphold the NCAA’s interpretation of the waiver rule so long as the NCAA didn’t act arbitrarily or capriciously, either of which is difficult to show.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Offhandedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offhandedly. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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