Gay
Gay adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Offhand
Offhand adjective - Made or done without previous thought or preparation.
Gay and offhand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gay" instead an adjective "Offhand".
Nearby Words: offhandedly, offhanded
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Peggy mentions offhand in one of the first seasons that she had never kissed a man until she was 20, and even then he was gay.
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Opus also retconned the sudden reveal in the end of Outland that Steve was gay by mentioning offhand that Steve was converted back to straight in some kind of therapy—and even before that, an Outland strip suggested that after leaving Bloom County, Binkley became Bart Simpson.
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Turns out she wasn't afraid of Kat being gay (an offhand comment about dating a hot enough woman a year ago was enough for her to accept the possibility that Kat might not be hetero-normative), but that her best (and at times only) friend might leave her.
Source: Coming-Out Story
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