casually
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/ˈkæʒuəli/
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/ˈkæʒuəli/ · /ˈkæʒwəli/ · /ˈkæʒ(j)ʊəli/ · /ˈkæzjuəli/
Definition of casually
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a casual manner.
“A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.”
“"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.[…]A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.”
“The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.”
“He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English casually, casuelly, casuali, casuely, equivalent to casual + -ly.
Words you can make from casually
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