offhandedness meaning

• Noun: offhandedness
  1. The property of being offhand

  Derived forms: offhandednesses

• The stage direction of Fabrizio Melano was filled with such offhandedness.
• But its giddy offhandedness is part of its immense charm.
• There is an intolerable sense of offhandedness.
• The offhandedness with which he implicates himself by becoming an accessory impresses her as none of his smooth moves did.
• What ought to be devastating and tragic about " City of God " is discomfiting in its offhandedness.
• That Felix is gay ( he leaves a boyfriend back in Normandy ) and HIV-positive is treated with welcome offhandedness but is by no means dismissed.
• But when Perkins sang about lost love, he could raise his voice just slightly and linger over a melodic turn, suddenly transforming a line from offhandedness to desolation.
• The offhandedness of the gunplay is an indication of the integrity of this grainy, ugly film about two young women who go on a cocaine-and booze-fueled murder spree.
• The longtime dean of Israel's intelligence community said in a newspaper interview Thursday that decisions in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office are made with an " intolerable sense of offhandedness ."
• The effectiveness of their terror campaign is somewhat undermined by the fact that Abdul and Shafiq seem to take their jihad for granted and treat it with the same offhandedness as the mundane details of their daily lives such as sport ( their beloved West Bromwich Albion F . C . ) and television ( shows such as The Darkness " ).

• "offhandedness" meaning in Chinese: n. offhanded的变形
• "offhandedness" meaning in Japanese: offhanded?ness n. 【名】
• "offhandedness" meaning in Russian: 1) небрежность; бесцеремонность
• "offhandedness" meaning in French: n. désinvolture; improvisation; spontanéïté