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nonchalant
/ˌnɑn.ʃəˈlɑnt/
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What does nonchalant mean?
adjective
- Casually calm and relaxed.
- Indifferent; unconcerned; behaving as if detached.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌnɑn.ʃəˈlɑnt/
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The philosophical tall soldier measured a sandwich of cracker and pork and swallowed it in a nonchalant manner.
He walked in a nonchalant fashion, and his bicycle went with him as if it were a live thing.
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He sat opposite to me, and lit a cigarette in his old, nonchalant manner.
He looked for her now, and in a moment she appeared, following her companions with the same nonchalant step as before, and leading her great snow-white poodle, decorated with motley ribbons.
Jude sat watching her pretty shoulders, her easy, curiously nonchalant risings and sittings, and her perfunctory genuflexions, and thought what a help such an Anglican would have been to him in happier circumstances.