| Eksempel: | - The teacher mentioned offhandedly that there would be a test next week, but didnt indicate that it would be an important one.
- Tom made the comment so offhandedly that at first it seemed unimportant, but then I saw the tension in his face and his body language and it quickly became clear that it really meant the world to him.
- Scratching his head, Tom asked, Have you seen that paperwork that was on the desk, Mary? Its kind of important. Oh, I threw that crap away last week, Tom, Mary replied offhandedly.
- While preparing for a radio speech in the year 1984, the American president offhandedly joked about having signed legislation that would outlaw Russia. We begin bombing in five minutes, hed said.
- While one reviewer savaged the novel as the irritating noodlings of a teen-age sociologist, a more sympathetic reviewer thought it funny and offhandedly brilliant.
- Babe Ruth was casual to the extreme; sometimes he offhandedly struck the ball far out of the baseball park while seeming to have scarcely thought about it.
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