blithe
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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
Under changing fortunes she goes from blithe to desperate.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2024
She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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