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insouciant

showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent

In a sentence

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

  • The lead plays an insouciant thief who yawns through the heist and orders lunch while alarms ring behind him.

    Movies

  • The portrait catches an insouciant shrug from a skater who clearly did not care that anyone was watching.

    Photography

  • Our insouciant driver missed the ferry, laughed, and suggested we spend the night in a village nobody had mentioned.

    Travel

  • The insouciant guard shrugged after the missed free throw and grinned at the bench as if the score meant nothing.

    Basketball

  • The novel's insouciant hero loses his fortune in chapter two and spends the rest of the book unbothered by it.

    Literature

  • An insouciant approach to warming up works until the first pulled hamstring, the trainer said.

    Fitness

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