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blithe

[blahyth, blahyth] / blaɪð, blaɪθ /


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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

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

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

He couldn’t stand such blithe defiance of petty laws.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Not blither is the mountain roe;   With many a wanton stroke Her feet disperse the powdery snow,   That rises up like smoke.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

It occurred to me that, had we come to bury Byfield, not to praise him, we might have displayed a blither interest.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Out on the sunlit parade a dozen garrison boys and girls were in the midst of a shouting, shrieking, frolicsome game of "Pull-Away," and Jimmy, usually one of the blithest and merriest, was not there.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King




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