词汇 | offhandedly |
释义 | offhandedly adverb uk /ˌɒfˈhæn.dɪd.li/ us /ˌɑːfˈhæn.dɪd.li/ in a way that does not seem to show much interest or careful thought: 漫不经心地;怠慢地 He offhandedly mentioned his interest to his boss.他不经意间对他老板提到了他的兴趣。 She spoke almost offhandedly.她几乎是脱口而出。 See offhand He offhandedly mentioned the trip. "Did you see him?" she asked her mother offhandedly. The administration last week offhandedly announced it was scrapping the program. Not being friendly abrasive abrasively abrasiveness abruptly abruptness aloof estrangement estrangement from someone flintily forbidding forbiddingly frigid gruff offish remote remoteness reserved reservedly saturnine wintry Examples of offhandedlyoffhandedly They carried themselves offhandedly, like connoisseurs and braggarts. What took a century and a half to build up is in danger of being offhandedly demolished in a decade and a half. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One review notes that it easily and off-handedly incorporates funk and rock elements without becoming a collection that is dominated by a backbeat aesthetic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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