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offhandedly

adverb as in nonchalantly

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But when Lenz, who prefers to go by her middle name, Joy, offhandedly mentioned the group last year in the show’s rewatch podcast, “Drama Queens,” joking with co-hosts Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton that she should write a book about it, it made headlines.

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

In an interview with the London Evening Standard published in December, Bailey described a harrowing encounter in a Washington, D.C., coffee shop in which a man threatened his life for being queer — and, in recounting the experience, offhandedly mentioned the “lovely man” he’d called, shaken, after it happened.

As the team reset for a complex shot accompanied by a relentlessly looped fragment from her track, Aftab whispered offhandedly to a cameraperson, “Thank God the song is good!”

In papers recently filed in the classified document case, he referred offhandedly to Trump’s “first term” in office, implying that there would be a second.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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