Meanings
comparative more unconcernedly · superlative most unconcernedly
- 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 41–422 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 16There 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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