unconcernedly

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1. 1

   In an unconcerned manner.

   • Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
   • Willie flits up, catches another insect, drops unconcernedly to his perch again, runs along the bullock's back in his bounding-jockey act, swallows his meal and announces he's a 'sweet-pretty-little-creature'.
   • There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.

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