blithe
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Morgan was blithe about the impact of endorsements.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
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As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Well," says Frithiof, "now is the time to show ourselves to be men of avail, though blither tide it was at Baldur's Meadows."
From The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 by William Morris
They blither me to stop, and I signalled back to ask their reason, and I’m dashed if they didn’t put a shot across my bows.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
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It's making an old woman of her since she's come of an age to think; and she the merriest, blithest creature that ever was.
From The Mermaid A Love Tale by Lily Dougall
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