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Definition of Offhand

Offhand

  1. Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
  2. In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.

Offhand Quotations

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Bob Seger

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
Jerry Saltz

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.
Tim Bishop
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Offhand Translations

offhand in German is aus dem Handgelenk
offhand in Spanish is de improviso

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