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The married women at length delivered their reports in a quiet and orderly manner; and as they did not presume to be as contemptuous and offhandish as they had been before, T'an Ch'un eventually cooled down.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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"So in the end I gave him my phone number, took his phone number and told mum in a very offhandish matter, whilst he was in earshot, that I would just have to call the police back now that it was a 'criminal matter'."
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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But whenever a person without authority or power asks someone who has power or authority over him for help, the answer is often no and given in an offhandish way.
BC Bloggers 2009
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The married women at length delivered their reports in a quiet and orderly manner; and as they did not presume to be as contemptuous and offhandish as they had been before, T’an
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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