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

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

Former FTX customers interviewed by the BBC said they were offended by the blithe dismissal of their problems, and urged the judge to reject calls for leniency.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 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

Instead, there was the blithe unselfconciousness of some crotchety old Veteran of Foreign Wars—married for years, father of multitudes—who finds the topic infinitely repugnant and amusing.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt