How to Use blithe in a Sentence

blithe

adjective

• He was blithe about the risks to his health.
• He showed blithe disregard for the rights of others.
• Take the case of our blithe acceptance of the electoral college.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• The paternal blithe spirit of this book is John B. Yeats.
  — Maureen Corrigan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
• Mr Trump is blithe about debts and deficits, insisting that tax cuts passed in 2017 will pay for themselves.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Those who survived the plague are still scarred by their memories of it, while the blithe young adults around them can’t relate.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• These weren’t the blithe transactions of a slick journalist.
  — Ben Smith, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• Drug cartels should not be made to seem an occasion for blithe derring-do.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2017
• That was perhaps the last time a President would be so blithe about U.S. hegemony.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2020
• Cillian, like all sons, was blithe about this betrayal.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 20 June 2016
• And, it must be said, the blithe status quo-ism of Mr Biden could be even more off-putting to Mr Sanders’s supporters than her wonkish pragmatism.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• There are now new borders and fences going up all over Europe, as a response to Merkel’s blithe misjudgment.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Oct. 2017
• But the film suffers from a similar problem, depicting her crisis with the blithe touch of a stand-up routine.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
• And while this is great for Amazon’s shareholders, most Americans can’t afford to be so blithe.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 June 2017
• His early entries that year are filled with blithe, gluttonous descriptions of food, plays and women.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• But the images of the blithe commando, then 47, seen on the recordings portrayed Woewiyu in a far different light than jurors have seen of him throughout much of the trial.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• Communism, in some measure, gave him his morals, without laying its heavy hand on his blithe spirit.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• This pattern will persist, with each new job and each move and each insurance change and each new GP -- four doctors, eight years, a mantra of blithe reassurance.
  — Ted Allen, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• John Slattery makes a rather blithe Eisenhower, though perhaps that's just how Brits see Americans, as breezy and shallow.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• John Slattery makes a rather blithe Eisenhower, though perhaps that’s just how Brits see Americans, as breezy and shallow.
  — Mick Lasalle, kansascity.com, 1 June 2017
• Every joke fires infallibly, whether blithe, barbed or raunchy.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 May 2019
• The state has been built on promises of an eternal present, on blithe and deliberate disregard for the past so as not to have to learn from it—on a refusal to give a single naked whit about the future.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2020
• This swerving tone—from blithe to pitiable, humorous to harrowing—works well in the books, when we are glued to Patrick’s side and treated to his acid tongue and exquisite descriptions.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
• To do so earnestly suggests a blithe unawareness of your surroundings, like shouting into the phone in public.
  — Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
• Pursued with a blithe insistence that all would be better in this best of all possible worlds, that agenda helped seed the social chaos and despair that have been such fertile ground for the right.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• The camera zooms in on the surface of the stone, and soon we’re suspended in a swell of C.G.I. — pink-flecked shards of bewildering diffraction, a tunnel of blithe and kaleidoscopic light.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• Gerald the Elephant is a Negative Nelly, Piggie is antic and blithe — on full display.
  — Maria Russo, New York Times, 26 May 2016
• Lost in the blithe tale of surviving one's youthful idiocy are all the subtleties of that process (as well as the one unsubtlety of it, that not everyone survives).
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• The members grabbed their backpacks, gathered up half-empty bags of chips and some clementine peels to use as compost, and alighted into a blare of car horns and the blithe clamor of a midtown Saturday night.
  — Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022

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