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Casualness   /kˈæʒəwəlnɛs/  /kˈæʒwəlnɛs/   Listen
Casualness

noun
1.
A casual manner.  Synonym: familiarity.






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"Casualness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a letter off," murmured the young man as his uncle looked inquiring. He turned to light a cigarette with an air of determined casualness. He didn't care to have Uncle Phil know any more about the ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... turning with a poorly done air of casualness, "what is commonly supposed to have become of Henry G. Surface? Do people generally believe that he ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... With light casualness he accepted her appearance on the scene. That glitter in his bright hazel eyes was not for that. "Come in, both of you," he called, plunging ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... anyway," the driver said with equal casualness. He didn't turn his head. "Make it two.... One very definite possible ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... Denzil on his hostess' other hand was looking everything that a woman could desire, and that his easy casualness of manner would be likely to charm. He saw that Amaryllis, too, observed him with unconscious interest, and a feeling akin to despair ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn

... buffer and orange-wood stick—if she believed in love at first sight did she suspect the underlying dynamics, the true inebriating factor of this reform. He put the query with elaborate and deceiving casualness, having cleared a road to it with remarks upon a circumspect historical romance that Winona had read to him; and she had merely said that she supposed it often did happen that way, though it were far better that true love come gently into ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Casualness" :   slanginess, casual, informality



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