nonchalantly

[non-shuh-lahnt-lee]

adverb

1. in an unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited manner; casually.

   The bear was nonchalantly ambling along in the grass, heading straight towards me.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonchalantly¹

nonchalant + -ly

Example Sentences

But it’s also full of colorful songwriting, of Shires doing tarot with a mermaid, wandering New York listening to Billy Joel or catching her now-former partner behaving nonchalantly on a home security camera.

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Twenty drivers are trapped at the bottom, some of whom, Gus says nonchalantly, are “probably not coming out.”

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McIlroy first made headlines in Northern Ireland as a kid when he went on local television and nonchalantly chipped golf balls into a washing machine.

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“I came for the margaritas, I drank a lot of margaritas,” one woman nonchalantly confesses as she exits the island.

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Reba’s dig at Stracke’s son was the sort of casual, unthinking barb that plenty of Southern mothers have perfected, tossed into a group conversation as nonchalantly as a request for sweet tea.

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Related Words

• casually 
• indifferently www.thesaurus.com