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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

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

I give him my best blithe smile, like a girl who thinks she has solved everyone’s problems.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

But I tried with Berlin, and found it a drearier Boston; with Paris, and found it a blonder and blither Boston; with London, and found it sombrely irrelevant and incomparable.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

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 it could soon strike Earth, ruining what should be baseball's blithest month.

From Time Magazine Archive

And aye she wrought her mammie’s wark, And ay she sang so merrilie: The blithest bird upon the bush Had ne’er a lighter heart than she.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert