insouciant

Example Sentences

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This column had a couple of great calls, to buy Treasurys at the start of the year and to fear tariffs when the market was insouciant about import taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

A true bro cultivates a harsh, insouciant machismo.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2025

Irvine's outspoken, insouciant character fitted well with the team.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

Two years ago, a normally insouciant defense consultant with a high security clearance told me that a briefing he’d recently received on Russia and China’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, programs left him “shaken.”

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2024

Where other elite athletes betray their doubts about their capacities with displays of touchy egotism, Woolf was utterly insouciant.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand