Offhanded

Before long, Luke’s freewheeling, offhanded confidence—a quality that probably made him seem boyishly attractive to Emily—has hardened into ugly defiance.

Donald turning his back on Roy, when the notorious fixer was dying of an AIDS-related illness, wasn't like the offhanded betrayal of a business interest, wife, or moral principle.

One reviewer seemed to fight to give the film a mediocre score, with an offhanded about an otherwise well-liked scene between a lovelorn Abe Sapien and Hellboy.

In the end he took two in the face, and old Chopper Read made the offhanded comment that the “spider” was his first target of that particular crew moved against him.

Sven Wiberg’s Max, an American mystery writer whose offhanded comments suggest genre conventions masterfully rendered in this play, also offers perspective on the British class divisions that complicate the search for truth.