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offhandedness
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See also: off-handedness
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offhandedness (uncountable)
- The property of being offhand.
- Your offhandedness is completely inappropriate in such an important situation.
- 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
- In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
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