degage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
degage
    adj 1: free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the
           nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson
    2: showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose
       on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be
       detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not
       hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" [syn:
       {degage}, {detached}, {uninvolved}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
d'egag'e \d['e]`ga`g['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of d['e]gager to
   disengage. See {De-}, 1st Gage, and cf. {Disgage}.]
   Unconstrained; easy; free. --Vanbrugh.

         A graceful and d['e]gag['e] manner.      --Poe.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "degage":
      Bohemian, affable, airy, blase, breezy, careless, casual, common,
      cordial, cursory, devil-may-care, disregardant, disregardful, easy,
      easygoing, familiar, flippant, folksy, forgetful, free and easy,
      gracious, haymish, heedless, homely, homey, inconsiderate,
      indifferent, informal, insouciant, irregular, lackadaisical, lazy,
      loose, low-pressure, natural, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand,
      offhanded, perfunctory, plain, reckless, regardless, relaxed,
      respectless, simple, sociable, tactless, thoughtless, unaffected,
      unassuming, unceremonious, unconcerned, unconstrained,
      unconventional, undiplomatic, unfussy, unheedful, unheeding,
      unmindful, unofficial, unprepared, unready, unreserved,
      unsolicitous, unstudied, untactful, unthinking
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