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/ɛkstˌɛmpɔːɹˈeɪniəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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with little or no preparation or forethought
his ad-lib comments showed poor judgment
offhand excuses
an extemporary lecture
an extempore skit
a few unrehearsed comments
trying to sound offhanded and reassuring
an off-the-cuff toast
an extemporaneous piano recital
an impromptu speech
How To Use extemporaneous In A Sentence
- Considering she’s supposed to be an attorney and all who excells in extemporaneous speaking conditions. Think Progress » Hagel: Military Strike on Iran is ‘Not a Viable, Feasible, Responsible Option’
- The ‘facts’ in this matter are that Clark made an extemporaneous statement on television that has been widely interpreted incorrectly.
- In most instances, we were shooting on the streets extemporaneously.
- And more broadly, very few people can be relied on being constantly elegant, or even constantly grammatically correct, in extended extemporaneous commentary.
- A number of the sermons in volume 22 demonstrate the briefer, more telegraphic sermon form that Edwards creates at this time to allow for presentations that could, when desired, be more flexible or extemporaneous.
- It seems as though some authors meticulously outline everything, while others just write extemporaneously - working without a net. Jamie Ford - An interview with author
- Pigeons are still more useful in extemporaneous cooking than fowls, as, being smaller, they are sooner cooked. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
- I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
- When pressed for some favorite locations, Murdoch begins a long litany that is both incredibly informed and casually extemporaneous.
- The former calypso monarch is widely regarded as a superb showman, one of the best at extemporaneous renditions while onstage.