blithe
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The blithe and often zany choreography unfolded intriguingly as its asymmetrical configurations—involving four men, three women and three folding chairs—kept the whole theatrical affair deftly off balance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
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
Safiya and Aisha are the same as always: blithe, full of joy, given to bursts of song.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
They blither me to stop, and I signalled back to ask their reason, and I’m dashed if they didn’t put a shot across my bows.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The General himself could not have uttered his piquant pleasantries in a blither tone than I did my impulsive defence of the right of private judgment.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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
The blithest of the war-inspired songs, now up among the bestsellers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Evander laughed outright, the blithest laugh that Halfman had yet heard pass from his Puritan lips.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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