unconcernedly

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adverb

In an unconcerned manner.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adverbunconcernedly (comparative more unconcernedly, superlative most unconcernedly)

comparative more unconcernedly · superlative most unconcernedly

  1. In an unconcerned manner.

    Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

    1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in “The War of the Worlds”, in Pearson’s, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson, published 1897, pages 41–42
    2 more examples

    Willie flits up, catches another insect, drops unconcernedly to his perch again, runs along the bullock's back in his bounding-jockey act, swallows his meal and announces he's a 'sweet-pretty-little-creature'.

    1934, Henry G[eorge] Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson Limited, →OCLC, page 16

    There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

    1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449

Origin

Translations

Dutch doodgemoedereerd
  • doodgemoedereerdin an unconcerned manner
Finnish piittaamattomasti, välinpitämättömästi
  • piittaamattomastiin an unconcerned manner
  • välinpitämättömästiin an unconcerned manner
French d'un air indifférent, nonchalamment
  • d'un air indifférentin an unconcerned manner
  • nonchalammentin an unconcerned manner
Polish obojętnie
  • obojętniein an unconcerned manner
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