What does offhandedness mean?
Offhandedness means The property of being offhand..
Offhandedness
/ˌɑfˈhændədnəs/ · noun
Meaning
The property of being offhand..
Example Sentences
Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
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- off-handedness
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Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
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