blitheness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Most pointedly, Markley predicts we’ll retain a collective blitheness over mass loss of life, even up to the point when floodwaters are up to our necks.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023

This obviously ironic blitheness in fact calls back to Sondheim and Swift, who invoked cannibalism to drive home dark moral fables — though here it’s larded with an M.F.K.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

And then there were those unadorned faces, telegraphing a certain blitheness about the coronavirus, which was, at the time of the show, raging through the country.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2020

Asked about this consequence, Harris was dismissive to the point of blitheness.

From Fox News • Jan. 29, 2019

Dunbar carried away the impression that Aberdeen was a blythe place: "Blythe Aberdeen thou beryl of all tounis, Thou lamp of beauty, bounty and blitheness."

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner