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Nonchalantly

Nonchalantly \Non"cha*lant`ly\, adv. In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

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nonchalantly

adv. In a nonchalant manner.

WordNet
nonchalantly
  1. adv. in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly]

  2. in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually]

Usage examples of "nonchalantly".

The man from whom these words emerged at the top of the stairs was easily recognizable once the angle revealed a pair of stringy trousered legs growing out from iron-heeled shoes: Langdon Peaslee, safecracker, nonchalantly buffing his diamond breast-pin with the wide cuff of his shirt.

Maeve sipped her steaming tea nonchalantly, and Donna felt an urge to laugh.

She picked up her drink and sipped it nonchalantly, aware of his eyes boring into hers.

Ruby hollered nonchalantly, tilting her head back to blow out some cigarette smoke.

The tiny figure of Ca stepped nonchalantly out into the shadow of the Sen-Danna Wall, apparently unmindful of the manacles on his wrists and i steel bilboes that held his ankles.

After that, almost nonchalantly, he shifted his grip below the quillons and brought the weapon back to the altar, circling behind Joram and Evaine to lay it before himself and Jesse on the white surface.

Gareth Swales was leaning nonchalantly against the side of the car, looking as unruffled and calm as ever, his hair neatly combed and the tweed suit as immaculate as if it had just come from his tailor.

As strings and banks and panels of lights winked out from one end of the midway to the other, as flaps were pulled over tent entrances and snugged down, as the carnies drifted away singly and in small groups, I ambled as nonchalantly as possible toward the center of the grounds and, when unobserved, dropped down and slid into the shadows beneath a truck.

Presently four of the dogs, Clog, Blackeye, Brist, and Paddler, ambled nonchalantly to the plane's tail assembly, leaped up onto it, and then worked their way forward on the slippery metal to a spot directly over the passenger cabin.

A new denture cleaner and brightener, a new itch fighting shampoo, the radiant testimonial of a halitosis survivor nonchalantly sweeping up dead leaves with a bamboo lawn rake whipped up in a Chinese prison and back to news on the economic front, the trade deficit, a burgeoning bank fraud, a lugubrious President announcing China's most favoured nation status chewing your bandages?

Barodahn carried the daggered axe of his clan's traditionalists upon his back, and Thankhar's hand was hooked nonchalantly into his belt, inches from the hilt of his longsword.

After a couple of minutes he looks up nonchalantly at Julieta, who is standing there holding the machine pistol and watching him with a look that is simultaneously frosty and smoldering, like baked Alaska.

A woman in a one-piece swimsuit walked towards them, a bright beach towel slung nonchalantly over one shoulder.

You ambled in a little too nonchalantly, you hung around all summer and helped chase Ocher out of Lys, you're tagging along on my personal war, and all you want is bed and board?

He was amusingly surprised to see a blue parrot fish swim nonchalantly out of the tube and into the compartment.