blithe

Example Sentences

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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

In his few conversations with Emily, he’s often blithe, focused more on the inconveniences prison life poses or whether Maisie will remember him than on what his wife and daughter must deal with.

From Los Angeles Times

Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

From Los Angeles Times

Online, video edits have proliferated of Lively’s more blithe responses to questions about her character.

From BBC

Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.

From New York Times