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Meanings of offhand in English
With little or no preparation or forethought.
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Examples for "impromptu"
Examples for "impromptu"
1
During the past two weeks she'd gotten used to his impromptu visits.
2
Without such assistance the D major section of the impromptu is insignificant.
3
He held a sort of impromptu reception in the little railroad station.
4
The house became an impromptu camp for the rest of that day.
5
The impromptu part of the programme began earlier than it was advertised.
1
We had a few extempore concerts in one of the middies' berths.
2
Mrs. Reading stood by me in very extempore costume, holding a night-lamp:-
3
When this is over, they all kneel, and the Itinerant prays extempore.
4
And now Pastor Tappau began his prayer, extempore, as was the custom.
5
His prayer was extempore, and he addressed God intimately and almost conversationally.
1
They were delivered without much preparation and were purely extemporaneous in character.
2
The closing of a door put an end to this extemporaneous address.
3
She had accidentally sent her unedited, extemporaneous outpouring to everyone she knew.
4
His hearer and his extemporaneous lecture plainly slipped out of his mind.
5
I tell the Bowery boys I'm what is called an extemporaneous talker.
1
I hope that our completely unrehearsed New Yorker captions made you laugh.
2
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
3
It's unrehearsed and recorded on a phone, but it's all still there.
4
Like an unrehearsed chorus, voices in pain, pain that echoed his own.
5
There's something unpretentious and unrehearsed about their posts-that'sexactly why we're so addicted.
1
The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer.
2
He despised purely extemporary efforts; he did not believe in them.
3
This is the usual series of evolutions through which an extemporary preacher passes.
4
The extemporary character of their contrivance and expedients, is sufficiently apparent.
5
The principle upon which extemporary prayer was originally introduced, is no longer admitted.
1
I discussed it with George Hadash last week in an offhanded way.
2
Bowman! He liked their reliance, offhanded though it might be, on him.
3
So who is it? Kreindler asked, putting on an offhanded yet respectful tone.
4
It sounds ingenious, Hackworth had said, startled by Finkle-McGraw's offhanded naughtiness.
5
And I don't mean that in the usual offhanded way.
1
You said yourself that you're trying to ad-lib your way out.
2
Give him one cue, and he'd ad-lib the whole play.
3
Being able to ad-lib is actually what it is.
4
As every move they make will be broad cast on live television ad-lib humor is out.
5
They do not use a script but ad-lib everything, using their own voices to portray the characters.
1
Spock could offer an off-the-cuff estimate here, but it would be meaningless.
2
It was an off-the-cuff remark and one that Robson retracted at once.
3
Then, after almost two hours of off-the-cuff chat, episode 191 is over.
4
As news of the off-the-cuff comment spread, the group was transformed into pariahs.
5
That, I thought, explained the sheriff's off-the-cuff comment to the media.
Usage of offhand in English
1
That said; it's possible that an offhand comment will actually be useful!
2
But offhand, I can't see a situation such as you describe arising.
3
I did not minimize that danger, despite Ramses's offhand request for assistance.
4
So she approached the twins respectfully, and said in an offhand way:
5
The words unintentionally came out sounding too offhand, impudent rather than apologetic.
6
The offhand dismissal of the subject put her on the defensive too.
7
One cannot affirm offhand that we are floating on the battered hull.
8
It was a bit of offhand folly born of an anxious moment.
9
You'd go at it slap-dash, and arrest Levison offhand on the charge.
10
I can't remember it offhand, but I bet Violet Tranh would know.
11
Twenty-seven yards, or about two-thirds the distance, if the shot was offhand.
12
But offhand, I'd say do nothing to the boy who made you.
13
Getting up to get more tea, she made an ostensibly offhand comment.
14
Without meaning to pun, we may dismiss the claims of palmistry offhand.
15
Jason's offhand acceptance of her apology endeared him to her even more.
16
He still strove for an offhand gaiety that he did not feel.
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United Kingdom
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