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Mr. Hilton has a blithe British manner and jokes about his un-Californian accent: “I have trouble saying ‘water’ in a way that people understand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Morgan was blithe about the impact of endorsements.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

That may give these companies an extra temporary boost, but consumers might not be so blithe, Malek warns.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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

She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

The General himself could not have uttered his piquant pleasantries in a blither tone than I did my impulsive defence of the right of private judgment.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

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 William Dean Howells

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

On the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth of April Seville annually keeps, on the Prado de San Sebastian, where the Inquisition used to light its fires, the blithest of spring festivals.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates