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Noël Coward's 1941 play Blithe Spirit is a comedy about what?

blithe

[blahyth, blahyth] / blaɪð, blaɪθ /


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Morgan was blithe about the impact of endorsements.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

That may give these companies an extra temporary boost, but consumers might not be so blithe, Malek warns.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

On being asked by a pious official if he really knew God’s judgment, he is said to have responded, “He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

Instead, she returned him to his agony with a blithe shrug of her shoulders.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blither is that?

From Time ● Mar. 1, 2014

As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stepped out in the blither air, and took his way to Hampstead Heath.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

He is blither and at the same time he is more solemnly abstracted.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

Ms. Bouder, now often so mannered in ballets by George Balanchine, was at her freest and blithest.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018

If you are late for “Amy,” a new documentary about Amy Winehouse, you will miss her at her blithest.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015

Though its social scope is narrower than Hardy’s, you do come away from it with a true sense of the shrouded world that he devised, where fate could frown upon even the blithest day.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2015

And it could soon strike Earth, ruining what should be baseball's blithest month.

From Time Magazine Archive

O, the merriest mouth, made for joy, made for light words and blithest laughter!

From The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown




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