Crossword clues for offhand
offhand
- Cancelled by Henry, with or without consideration
- Offensively nonchalant
- Where palmist takes reading without warning
- Ungraciously nonchalant
- Ungraciously cool
- Ungracious, leaving to applause
- Ungraciously curt
- Readily available ... testing, testing ... rats, try this clue: Casual, as a remark
- Casual, as a remark
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offhand \Off"hand`\, a. Instant; unprepared; ready; extemporaneous; unrehearsed; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses; an offhand comment. -- adv. In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
Wiktionary
a. 1 without planning or thinking ahead 2 careless; without sufficient thought or consideration 3 curt, abrupt, unfriendly adv. 1 right away, immediately, without thinking about it 2 in an offhand manner
WordNet
adv. 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: offhanded, offhandedly]
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: offhanded, offhandedly]
adj. with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments" [syn: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, offhanded, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed]
casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt" [syn: offhanded]
Usage examples of "offhand".
Wikkell could see how it might have been so: this Deek was a pleasant enough sort, much better company than a haughty bat or a jibbering moron of a White, and certainly much, much nicer than the human wizard, with his noxious spells and offhand death-dealing.
Rodolphe, who had managed the fatality, thought the remark very offhand from a man in his position, comic even, and a little mean.
They seemed impressed, although he told his story in an offhand manner devoid of bragging.
She lifted one shoulder in an offhand shrug, still apparently absorbed by the problem of the chair.
The man was obviously speaking from prepared notes, eyes tracking left and right as he spoke, but it came over as utterly offhand and sincere.
The last statement was made in such an offhand manner that the import of it did not register immediately on Kat.
He tried to sound offhand, but one hand fumbled for the blue amulet he wore beneath his robes.
Like his little offhand remarks that made her want to laugh out loud, his understanding of her anger amazed and worried her.
This was too important to let slide in a glib phrase or an offhand remark.
Edge was sitting apart from the others, apparently rapt in deep study, and he murmured only an offhand thank-you for the compliments.
She made an offhand comment, a few nights before she disappeared, to some of the tech crew.
And he can tell you offhand, not only their worth in the normal perforated and canceled condition, but also how their values vary if they are uncanceled, unperforated, embossed, rouletted, surcharged with all manner of initials, printed by mistake with the king standing on his head, or water-marked anything from a horn of plenty to the seven lean kine of Egypt.
Lieutenant Malstrom returned my salute in offhand fashion, his eye on the suited sailor untying our forward safety line from the shoreside stanchion.
The offhand condemnation made the man who had driven him to the Subtreasury Building mutter something under his breath.
But he hardly speaks to her when she is fetched and Claribel is quite offhand.