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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

As Gelman observes, the problem with this approach as policy “is not just the innumeracy, it’s the blithe disregard for it, the idea that being off by multiple orders of magnitude ... just doesn’t matter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025

He couldn’t stand such blithe defiance of petty laws.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

Not blither is the mountain roe: With many a wanton stroke 10 Her feet disperse the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke.

From Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various

The king was the blither, And suffered in his soul less sorrow and anguish, The valiant victor, through the vision fair.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

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 Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Good morning," called Hanson in his blithest, most assured fashion.

From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow




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