The nurse, in her evidence, had reported him as speaking in an off-hand manner.

Others spoke about the operation in an off-hand manner.

Ramage stood up, and suddenly turned the key in the door in an off-hand manner.

And just generally bring the dead to life, in a sort of off-hand manner.

Karl could do things in the most off-hand manner, making her turn red, or away, or look quickly to see if James saw.

Opening the drawer without the light, he may have set some papers on top in a perfectly off-hand manner.

She said how do you do to me in her usual off-hand manner and picked up a sandwich.

"You've given me a lot to think about," he said with an attempt at an off-hand manner.

"To be perfectly honest, I'm really not too unhappy about being grounded," she said in an off-hand manner.

"It's easy to send an excuse," she said, in her off-hand manner.