noun
definition
Indifference; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment.
Examples of nonchalance in a Sentence
His nonchalance made her angry.
While he feigned nonchalance, it was obvious he was as proud as a kid with a new toy to show them what he'd discovered.
Her instincts didn't like Evelyn's nonchalance on the subject.
He sat down in his chair and propped his legs up with nonchalance, as if he hadn't performed the impossible and healed her.
He treated his Serene Highness with a somewhat affected nonchalance intended to show that, as a highly trained military man, he left it to Russians to make an idol of this useless old man, but that he knew whom he was dealing with.
The guardsman struck with nonchalance that told Jule just how much he was being underestimated.
Her face felt hot at his nonchalance.
The helicopter lifted away before Brady had two feet in its belly, and the soldier holding her strapped her securely into a seat in the rear while the two of them stood with nonchalance in the center.
The alternative lifestyle is marked by a nonchalance regarding materialism.
It goes with the territory to kill them, like you kill cows for hamburgers, he said with such nonchalance she was left speechless.
But as the captain of the " Endeavour " ordered out the pinnace and prepared to land, the natives threw off their nonchalance; for on the boat approaching the shore, two men, each armed with a bundle of spears, presented themselves on a projecting rock and made threatening signs to the strangers.
On the journey thither he was caught by pirates, whom he treated with consummate nonchalance while awaiting his ransom, threatening to return and crucify them; when released he lost no time in carrying out his threat.
Few can imagine such apparent nonchalance from people who know they are shortly about to die, let alone undertake such a callous act.