offhand's Usage Examples:

In contrast with the mutual friendliness and loyalty of the Pharisees, their behaviour towards one another is lacking in courtesy, and when they mix with their fellow-countrymen, they are as offhanded as if their fellows were aliens.

I can't remember offhand what key it was in but live I place a capo at the 5th fret.

General Sherman's succinct declaration on the brute nature of war has become ensconced in our national lexicon as an offhand way of acknowledging the true horror of war without actually having to think on it.

Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.

Fred dismissed her observation with an offhand attempt to romanticize the time.

She stared up at him in amazement as she absorbed his offhanded invitation.

In this situation, the woman made an offhand tweet suggesting that the apartment she lived in had mold in it.

"He was so much like her father - the same offhanded delivery of humor.

One of the ladies who worked at the courthouse made an offhand comment about the popular Lucky Pup Mine.

She showered and dressed, thinking about his offhanded way of handing out compliments.

Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more.

Her offhand treatment of the new empress, Marie Louise, in 1810 led to her removal from court.

He was so much like her father - the same offhanded delivery of humor.

Synonyms:

offhandedly, offhanded,

Antonyms:

spread, artful, heedful,