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offhand
abrupt, by ear, disregardant, folksy, improvisatorial, lazy, out of hand, simply, unassumingly, unmindfully
Definition
adv.
without previous thought or preparation
Last update: October 7, 2015
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I ca n't remember
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what key it was in but live I place a capo at the 5th fret.
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Fred dismissed her observation with an
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attempt to romanticize the time.
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He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle,
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Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an
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air which alienated Princess Mary still more.
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This matter needed some deep reflection, and could not be determined
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"These things can't be done
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, if at all."
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"The Morgans offered to shoot us
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, two hundred yards, bull's-eye count."'
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His tone was
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, his hat already back upon his head.
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"And I'd say
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that he wants to talk to us."
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Money, apparently telling her,
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, of travel and adventure.
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"His face seems familiar," Peter Gross remarked in an
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