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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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Mr. Hilton has a blithe British manner and jokes about his un-Californian accent: “I have trouble saying ‘water’ in a way that people understand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

In his few conversations with Emily, he’s often blithe, focused more on the inconveniences prison life poses or whether Maisie will remember him than on what his wife and daughter must deal with.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Mother was a blithe chick nuzzling around the large, solid dark hen.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

Doubtless a Dane could perform the offices on this particular field with a blither spirit than a native Englishman.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson

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

And it could soon strike Earth, ruining what should be baseball's blithest month.

From Time Magazine Archive

You were kind—over-lenient, 'twas rumor'd, to rule— And so learn'd, though the blithest of all in the school, 'Twas your pupil's own fault if he left you a fool,                     My jolly old classical master.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by W. M. MacKeracher


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