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blithe

[blahyth, blahyth] / blaɪð, blaɪθ /


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The blithe and often zany choreography unfolded intriguingly as its asymmetrical configurations—involving four men, three women and three folding chairs—kept the whole theatrical affair deftly off balance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 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

As Gelman observes, the problem with this approach as policy “is not just the innumeracy, it’s the blithe disregard for it, the idea that being off by multiple orders of magnitude ... just doesn’t matter.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2025

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

She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blither is that?

From Time Mar. 1, 2014

Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't know that I ever saw a blither young fellow until about the time the finding of that board of survey was announced.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King

Thus spoke innocent Bertha, dancing all the while, and dancing all the blither for not knowing how to tell it—so ready is heaven to compensate our lackings when love is in our hearts.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady

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

When Cooke died last week at 95, the English-speaking world said a melancholy good-night to a consummate reporter and the world's wisest, blithest uncle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amidst the revel thou wast gay, The blithest with the song!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various




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