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blithe

[blahyth, blahyth] / blaɪð, blaɪθ /


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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

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

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

From BBC Aug. 24, 2024

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

I ha' suffered it these thirty years and more, and 'tain't worth while, for the few years that's left, makin' a blub and a blither about it.

From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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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