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adjective

blithe

lacking or showing a lack of due concern

In a sentence

Six example sentences with blithe, each labelled with its topic.

  • The company's blithe assurance that the pond would drain itself lasted until the first summer of dead fish.

    Environment

  • His blithe confidence that the market always recovers survived exactly one quarter of watching the account balance fall.

    Finance

  • The founder made a blithe promise to ship in six weeks without once asking the two engineers who would build it.

    Startups

  • The team's blithe dismissal of the outlier cost them a year, since that odd reading was the discovery.

    Science

  • The minister gave a blithe wave to questions about the deficit and moved on to the ribbon cutting.

    Politics

  • With blithe disregard for the storm warnings, the group set out across the bay in a rented dinghy.

    Travel

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