あっさり
lightly, easily, simply
Said in one breath and moved straight past, as though it had cost nothing at all to say. A salary あっさり mentioned like the weather: あっさり.
Also used of food, where it means light and not rich, the opposite of こってり. ただ is simply as in merely.
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