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CASUALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an unconcerned manner
Example:
glanced casually at the headlines
Synonyms:
casually; nonchalantly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
casual (marked by blithe unconcern)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not methodically or according to plan
Example:
he dealt with his course work casually
Classified under:
Pertainym:
casual (without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand)
Context examples:
At the first warning, Theresa began casually to clear away the dishes.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I accustomed myself to giving her, as it were quite casually, little scraps of useful information, or sound opinion—and she started from them when I let them off, as if they had been crackers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Whether he had happened there just casually, intent on other affairs, or whether he had come there for the direct purpose of inviting him to dinner, Martin never could quite make up his mind, though he inclined toward the second hypothesis.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She entertained a wild idea of explaining to him the first time they were alone together, of lying to him, of mentioning casually the attack of faintness that had overpowered her just before the moon came up.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"What part of the middle-west?" I inquired casually.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
You've dyed your hair since then, remarked Jordan, and I started but the girls had moved casually on and her remark was addressed to the premature moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer's basket.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
