blithe

Example Sentences

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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 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 • May 5, 2025

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 • May 10, 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