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insouciant

How to use insouciant in a sentence

Her poems are marked by an insouciant sense of hope, something she sees as a necessity in these times.

There was no secernment between her soul and surface; she was mere, insouciant, with a rare dulcedo.

More or less—an insouciant manner, and a rather startling button-hole.

Adversity came to the insouciant grey battery, adversity quickening to disaster.

At St Malo, as the tide ebbed, all the delightfully insouciant and cheery French world congregated.

LOVE'S USURIESLOUIS CRESWICKE

Indolent, insouciant and apathetic, the Arab lives to-day as in the past, indifferent to all progress.

He strolls through Europe with an insouciant air and finds it almost as good as California.

THE NATIVE SONINEZ HAYNES IRWIN

The latter object ruined the effect of his insouciant rendition of "Home, Sweet Home."

Never before had he been so insouciant, although never before had the risk been so great.

PHOEBE, JUNIORMRS [MARGARET] OLIPHANT

Boudgoust, profoundly dejected, appeared, followed by the insouciant figure of Dossonville.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985