off-the-cuff

How To Use off-the-cuff In A Sentence

• My wife says I cannot tell a joke, but I can make off-the-cuff cracks that have been known to elicit the occasional chuckle.
• Even if you don't agree with him, it's not difficult to sympathise with the sentiment behind his off-the-cuff remark.
• The off-the-cuff charmer and disarmer from the old Straight Talk Express was missing from the second debate, a town-hall format that was supposed to be the most comfortable setting for McCain. The Great Debates
• You're getting close to a good mix of two broad streams: shortish, formless, off-the-cuff opinion pieces; and formal, well-argued pieces, both long and short.
• His off-the-cuff acceptance speech in Huntingdon was a model of quiet decency. Times, Sunday Times
• His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• It's full of grabby descriptions and witty, off-the-cuff dialogue.
• I didn't mean any offence. It was a flippant, off-the-cuff remark.
• The point of weblogs is their off-the-cuff nature, their unscripted, up-to-the-minute commentary.
• The number of verifiable off-the-cuff remarks she has made during six decades of queenship can be counted on one hand. Times, Sunday Times