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How to use blithe in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Blithe means casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant. Example: “She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.”

Examples of blithe by meaning

adjectiveCasually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.

  • She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.
  • There is in fact an intimate link between the project’s ideals and its blithe ignorance of “decades of programming language research.” The project expresses, in a typically extreme way, a certain kind of hacker utopianism.2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge...

More sentences with blithe

  • The government's blithe disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.From the entry disregard
  • He hummed a blithe San Salvador Opera Company tune; he grinned, smirked, bowed, pirouetted, twiddled, twaddled, twisted, and tooralooed.1917, William Sydney Porter, “The snow man”, in Waifs and strays, Doubleday, page 115. From the entry tooraloo
  • Though his songs are hugely ambitious — the majestic bombast of “Llueve Por Dentro,” or the blithe, sinuous dance-pop of “La Mentira” — Mr.2009 February 8, Jon Caramanica, “Voices Newly Amplified by Grammy Nominations”, in New York Times. From the entry oversing
  • I surrendered to a blithe logorrhea that left me contentedly limp and lax and in need of an hour or two of open air.1919, Arthur Stringer, “The Nile-green Roadster”, in The Man Who Couldn’t Sleep, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page…. From the entry logorrhea
  • From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls.1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “England, My England”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer…. From the entry guerilla
  • "Fate-dispenser," Medford Browne was wont to ask her on occasion, "how canst thou be so blithe when so weightsome is thy day's allotment of labor?"1912, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National magazine - Volume 35 - Page 297. From the entry weightsome
  • She was young and blithe, with a face like an April morning, and a voice in her that put the laverocks to shame.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry laverock
  • There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood. From the entry bye
  • Children row around in rubber dinghies, self-importantly pointing out hero daddies; trolleysful of tinned curry sauce and six-packs of beer are transferred down hatches with a blithe disregard for deadweight.1984, Libby Purves, “At Millbay Dock”, in Libby Purves, Trevor Grove, editors, Single Handed: The Observer/Europe 1 Singlehanded…. From the entry trolleyful

Meaning of blithe

  1. adjective Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.
  2. adjective Cheerful, happy.
  3. adjective Fair, beautiful, comely; gracious, pleasant and attractive in manner.

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Questions about blithe in a sentence

How do you use blithe in a sentence?
Blithe is used as an adjective. For example: “She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.”
What is a short sentence with blithe?
“She had a blithe disregard of cultures outside the United States.”
What does blithe mean?
Blithe means casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.

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