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Definition of Offhandedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offhandedness
Literary usage of Offhandedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Whatever may be said against the offhandedness and flippancy of a few Jacks in
Office, the behaviour of Messrs. ..."
2. Marriage by Herbert George Wells (1912)
"But Mrs. Pope had something more definite to say to Marj one, and came to it at
last with a tactful offhandedness. Marjorie communicated it to Traf- ford ..."
3. Spain, Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788).: Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788) by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume, Edward Armstrong (1905)
"Buckingham shocked the Spanish Court with his easy familiarity, and soon came to
loggerheads with Olivares, who looked upon his offhandedness ..."
4. Mexico on the Verge by Emile Joseph Dillon (1921)
"... the utmost offhandedness, by reason of the few attractions it offers; if,
after all this, one were to unfold to them on the screen a moving picture of ..."
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