blithe
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On being asked by a pious official if he really knew God’s judgment, he is said to have responded, “He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to him.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 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
Online, video edits have proliferated of Lively’s more blithe responses to questions about her character.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
In one blithe sentence, Shafik assumes into legitimacy the major institutions of liberal modernity and declares them partners in a cooperative project, without inquiring into whether or how these institutions might be democratically justified.
From Slate • May 9, 2024
In the year she knew him, before they were married, she discovered a little magic in herself, and for a while felt like a blithe genie released from her lamp.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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