Definition of Offhandedness

1. Noun. the property of being offhand ¹

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Definition of Offhandedness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Offhandedness

offereth
offering
offering protection
offerings
offeror
offerors
offers
offertories
offertory
offerture
offertures
offfield
offhand
offhanded
offhandedly
offhandedness
offhandednesses
offhold
office
office-bearer
office-house
office-wall
office-walls
office automation
office block
office boy
office boys
office building
office buildings
office chair

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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