Meanings
alternative off-handedness
- uncountableThe property of being offhand.
Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
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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.
2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67
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Translations
Polish bezceremonialność
- bezceremonialnośćTranslations
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offhandedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/offhandedness
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