LekhoriLekhoriCareless; without sufficient thought or consideration.
He doesn't realise how hurtful his offhand remarks can be.
Curt, abrupt, unfriendly.
She was quite offhand with me yesterday.
Right away, immediately, without thinking about it.
Offhand, I'd guess that that's a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
From Middle English *ofhande, *ofhende, from Old English ofhende (“absent, lost”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *abahandijaz. Equivalent to (and re-formed as) off- + hand. Cognate with Icelandic afh...
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In an abrupt or unfriendly manner.