3 example sentences using off-the-cuff.
Off-the-cuff used in a sentence
Off-the-cuff in a sentence as an adjective
Well, here's what I learned interviewing at google:Be very good at off-the-cuff 80% solutions to topcoder problems on a whiteboard, which I am.
One of them proceeded to tell me that this can't possibly work, backing up his argument with "reasoning" based on off-the-cuff remarks about the way air and physics "must" work.
For those making off-the-cuff judgments of how crazy this idea is: In 1990 or so, Dave Ungar told me he was going to make his crazy Self language work at practical speed by using the crazy idea of running the compiler on every method call at runtime.
Off-the-cuff definitions
with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit"; "an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast"; "a few unrehearsed comments"
See also: ad-lib extemporaneous extemporary extempore impromptu offhand offhanded unrehearsed