blithe

Example Sentences

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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

Online, video edits have proliferated of Lively’s more blithe responses to questions about her character.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024

Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

For a movie that’s very much about different shades of transgression, Elizabeth goes about her research with a blithe indifference to boundaries.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

I give him my best blithe smile, like a girl who thinks she has solved everyone’s problems.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black