casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"
without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly"
win an overwhelming victory in or on; "Her new show dog swept all championships"
sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
clean by sweeping; "Please sweep the floor"
move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"
defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
guess correctly; solve by guessing; "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"