blithe
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That may give these companies an extra temporary boost, but consumers might not be so blithe, Malek warns.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
Steppenwolf Theatre co-artistic director Audrey Francis brings a casual grace to her portrayal of Belinda Blair, the blithe peacemaker of the troupe who knows all the company’s secrets and spills them every chance she gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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
As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blither is that?
From Time ● Mar. 1, 2014
As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But there’s na into the king’s realm to be found a blither twa, And now she’s Mrs. Wedderburn, and she lies at the wa’.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
Not blither is the mountain roe: With many a wanton stroke 10 Her feet disperse the powdery snow, That rises up like smoke.
From Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various
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 Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Evander laughed outright, the blithest laugh that Halfman had yet heard pass from his Puritan lips.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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