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adjective 
  1. without planning or thinking ahead
    • She gave an speech.
    • careless; without sufficient thought or consideration
    • He doesn't realise how hurtful his remarks can be.
    • curt, abrupt, unfriendly
    • She was quite with me yesterday.
adverb 
  1. right away, immediately, without thinking about it
    • Offhand, I'd guess that that's a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
    • 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring - We will have no more of this shilly-shallying! Call the Archbishop, and let the Prince and Princess be married !
    • in an offhand manner
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