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Recent Examples of offhandedly
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.
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offhandedly
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Soon there’s a birthday party, Valentine’s Day, a brit bat (aka a baby-naming ceremony), Purim (a celebration of Jewish deliverance casually referred to as Jewish Halloween), and a game night at a beer garden.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Oct. 2025
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Dacus appeared visibly confused by Monáe casually dropping some time-traveling lore.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Wallets, coins, and rings are carelessly passed around this little society, and messages are corrupted—from Orsino’s wooing of Olivia, which is accidentally undone by his own go-between, Viola, to the letters that deceive Malvolio.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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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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These puzzles, like the horizon problem, the flatness problem, and the monopole problem, strongly suggested that the hot, dense, early state couldn’t be extrapolated to arbitrarily high temperatures and energies.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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Iran has accused France of arbitrarily detaining Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian student living in the French city of Lyon, who was arrested this year over anti-Israel social media posts.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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So, is the idea to replicate the British pub experience of people discussing hot topics informally?—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
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It can be learned formally or informally, and often includes bright colors and abstract, whimsical designs.—
Rachel DeSantis,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Susan B. Barnes,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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Huffman recently whimsically hinted at his enthusiasm about representing new territory.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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
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Envision a passive approach to private credit, inflows would require managers to indiscriminately allocate capital among existing borrowers.—
Mike Terwilliger,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Avoid spraying indiscriminately indoors.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Offhandedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offhandedly. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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