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
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 ● Dec. 19, 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
The Homfoot boys walked blithe and barefoot through the snowdrifts.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
What kind of toxic passive-aggressive blither is that?
From Time ● Mar. 1, 2014
Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for his poetic effusions and snatches of writing, they are mostly fey blither.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doubtless a Dane could perform the offices on this particular field with a blither spirit than a native Englishman.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
I knew well enough you’d start this blither about ambition.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
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
Ted, who had always been the blithest brother, and the least intellectual or introspective, could now be morose at times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, slam as you will my garden door, And whistle your blithest lay; I love your company, though unseen, Dear maker-of-mischief gay.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
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