offhand

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Mr Novikov insists that the offhand service that often distresses visitors to Moscow is improving.
諾維科夫堅持說，那些困擾莫斯科游客的隨隨便便的服務(wù)正在改善。
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN: Offhand, I can’t tell you when they started using the term “anosognosia” for other types of denial.
拉瑪錢德朗：我不能馬上告訴你，他們何時開始將“病感失認(rèn)癥”這個術(shù)語用于其它的否認(rèn)類型。
The best example I can think of offhand, I should let this wait, but Peter the Great, the czar of the Russians, who may or may not have beaten his son to death, at least he ordered him tortured.
我現(xiàn)在臨時能想到的最好的例子,就是沙皇彼得大帝,本來要等會再說的,彼得大帝是否判處了自己兒子死刑還有爭論,但至少他曾下令用酷刑折磨他的兒子

The best example I can think of offhand, I should let this wait, but Peter the Great, the czar of the Russians, who may or may not have beaten his son to death, at least he ordered him tortured.
我現(xiàn)在臨時能想到的最好的例子,就是沙皇彼得大帝,本來要等會再說的,彼得大帝是否判處了自己兒子死刑還有爭論,但至少他曾下令用酷刑折磨他的兒子
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The law does not prohibit light teasing, offhand comments or isolated and non-too-serious incidents.
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Members of Congress resent him for treating them in such an offhand manner.
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However, I have little reason to believe that such offhand remarks are true.
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not friendly, and showing little interest in other people in a way that seems slightly rude
without looking for information and without thinking carefully; immediately

If you say that someone is being offhand, you are critical of them for being unfriendly or impolite, and not showing any interest in what other people are doing or saying.
If you say something offhand, you say it without checking the details or facts of it.