offhand , auch: off-hand

In their offhand way, they tried to be kind to him.

The question was impossible for me to answer in an offhand way.

He had heard the offhand comments the police made about her.

The boy was offhand and always trying to be clever.

It was an offhand comment, one she had made many times.

One of them asked Philip, in an offhand way, where he had been for the last few days.

He should be offhand and careless, as other men were.

He spoke in an offhand way, as if a detail had come to mind.

"It will be clear enough to you soon," he said, in an offhand way.

It's hard to write that off as an offhand comment.

In the title story, an offhand comment changes the course of a man's life.

"Now you know the way," she said in a sort of offhand invitation.

I'll have to go at it in an offhand way, but maybe I can get something out of her."

The offhand American "sorry about that" would never fly here.

But in the current atmosphere, even an offhand comment was enough to drive the President off course.

Not that the Mozart was presented in an offhand way.

The offhand remark was his best lesson of the day.

"The theory was sound," the smith answered in an offhand sort of way.

Grandfather told me in the most offhand manner that we'd both died.

His father would have been able to accomplish such a change with no more than an offhand comment.

He was also encouraged by an offhand comment he'd heard from a judge a week ago.

"But then he would just raise himself from the dead," she said, her voice an offhand whisper.

This seemingly offhand work should go in a time capsule.

That's one you cannot answer in an offhand way.

I said it in an offhand sort of way.