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nonchalantly

[ UK /nˈɒnʃələntli/ ]
[ US /ˈnɑnʃəˈɫɑntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a composed and unconcerned manner
    without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher
  2. in an unconcerned manner
    glanced casually at the headlines

How To Use nonchalantly In A Sentence

  • She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.” Archive 2009-04-01
  • Goodes stopped the rot with a set shot following a massive 'speccy', but there was no stopping the Demons as Austin Wonaeamirri, who was a late inclusion for Moloney, nonchalantly thread the eye of the needle from almost on the goal line before Paul Johnson marked and goaled. Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
  • Yet regarding Massimo Pallottino's crucial list of Etruscan inscriptions called Testimonia linguae Etruscae TLE, after months of witnessing its absence on the shelf at the U of M, I was told nonchalantly by a librarian I spoke to that it was probably stolen. Phi Beta Kappa + masters degree = instant Etruscanist
  • I had a sudden epiphany, and slipped my hands nonchalantly into my pockets.
  • I nonchalantly leave Adrian in the living room and enter the kitchen, although my stomach is clenching with anxiety and apprehension.
  • He offers me some of the coke, I shake my head nonchalantly.
  • Being a consummate realist, Joyce reports what he observes and then nonchalantly pares his fingernails, as Stephen suggests in the speculative remarks at the end of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
  • True, I did not stand there, nonchalantly drawing on a cigarette
  • Brakes screeched and horn blared but Harry just sauntered over to me so nonchalantly.
  • Instead of launching it over the sightscreen, he could only hit a skimming drive that the bowler snaffled nonchalantly. Times, Sunday Times
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