offhandedly
Example Sentences
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That’s been there for a while, an employee offhandedly informs him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Most people, I think, still have a positive association with the name, and Tupperware’s problem is that the company doesn’t actually get paid when someone offhandedly refers to their Rubbermaid or OXO container as “Tupperware.”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2024
Even decades later, Hodes, now a historian at New York University, brought it up only with close friends, and then only offhandedly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Finn replies offhandedly, “You can’t miss what you never had, right?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
“Just some cousin of Mario’s here for the weekend,” Minerva says too offhandedly.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
