insouciant

Example Sentences

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This column had a couple of great calls, to buy Treasurys at the start of the year and to fear tariffs when the market was insouciant about import taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Irvine's outspoken, insouciant character fitted well with the team.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

Two years ago, a normally insouciant defense consultant with a high security clearance told me that a briefing he’d recently received on Russia and China’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, programs left him “shaken.”

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2024

This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

In this setting, another, more insouciant company had hunkered down.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan