Casual

(adj.) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; 'a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws'; 'a passing glance'; 'perfunctory courtesy' .

(adj.) marked by blithe unconcern; 'an ability to interest casual students'; 'showed a casual disregard for cold weather'; 'an utterly insouciant financial policy'; 'an elegantly insouciant manner'; 'drove his car with nonchalant abandon'; 'was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner' .

(adj.) not showing effort or strain; 'a difficult feat performed with casual mastery'; 'careless grace' .

(adj.) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; 'casual clothes'; 'everyday clothes' .

(adj.) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; 'seek help from casual passers-by'; 'a casual meeting'; 'a chance occurrence' .

(adj.) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; 'a casual remark'; 'information collected by casual methods and in their spare time' .

(adj.) occurring from time to time; 'casual employment'; 'a casual correspondence with a former teacher'; 'an occasional worker' .

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• For sound, whether it be the noise of an oarlock or a companion’s casual remark, can be heard more than four times as easily by the fish in the water beneath than it can up above in the air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The circumstance on which my story rests was suggested in casual conversation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Why not be casual, drifting along, taking all for what it was worth? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• So I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish Woman nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It will be remembered that many of the earlier experiments were based on the use of strips of platinum; while other rare metals were the subject of casual trial. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There is a variety of testimony to the effect that not only musical sounds, but stray words and phrases, were actually transmitted with mediocre, casual success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I, as my nature prompted, would not prognosticate evil, but explained it away as a mere casual incident. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: Now, why in the world didn't you marry my little Ellen? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The name of the ticker came through the casual remark of an observer to whom the noise was the most striking feature of the mechanism. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What is casual and inconstant gives but little joy, and less pride. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Then Gudrun asked, in a voice that was quite cool and casual, as if resuming a casual conversation: 'Was the girl a model? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They'll make you pay, as fur as your money will go,' pursued the Deputy, 'for your relief as a Casual and for your being passed to your Parish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The field of optics is so large that many interesting branches can receive only a casual mention. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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