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Recent Examples of blithely
The Democrat had joked about shooting the Republican leader of the state House and blithely spoken of watching his children die in their mother’s arms.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Next came a disastrous interview with CBS’s Katie Couric in which Palin seemed to reveal herself to be uninformed and blithely incurious about most things unrelated to Alaska.
—Time, 3 Nov. 2025
His business associates view him as both blithely charming and, in a word, obsessed.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
Jesse jokes, blithely unaware, before shooting out of bed after locking eyes with the chimp.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The region has long embraced tourism for the most part, or at least blithely put up with it.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
In those two decades, Roberts has blithely overseen the near-total dismantling of American democracy and an unprecedented rollback of basic rights.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
As his profile began to grow on Grand Cayman, Santor became known for securing the best tables at restaurants and riding a scooter through island traffic, blithely ignoring suggestions to put on a helmet.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Herbert captures remarkable scenes of white visitors indulging in nostalgia for the Confederacy blithely unaware, seemingly, of the violence and inhumanity of the pre-Civil War era when millions of African Americans were enslaved.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Next came a disastrous interview with CBS’s Katie Couric in which Palin seemed to reveal herself to be uninformed and blithely incurious about most things unrelated to Alaska.
—Time, 3 Nov. 2025
His business associates view him as both blithely charming and, in a word, obsessed.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
Jesse jokes, blithely unaware, before shooting out of bed after locking eyes with the chimp.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The region has long embraced tourism for the most part, or at least blithely put up with it.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
In those two decades, Roberts has blithely overseen the near-total dismantling of American democracy and an unprecedented rollback of basic rights.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
As his profile began to grow on Grand Cayman, Santor became known for securing the best tables at restaurants and riding a scooter through island traffic, blithely ignoring suggestions to put on a helmet.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Herbert captures remarkable scenes of white visitors indulging in nostalgia for the Confederacy blithely unaware, seemingly, of the violence and inhumanity of the pre-Civil War era when millions of African Americans were enslaved.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blithely
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Everything bops breezily along, stopping occasionally to have Dek growl maxims about strength through domination, and observe a decapitation or two.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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Kipnis describes her own mother laughingly recalling a college professor chasing her around a desk and trying to kiss her.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Downstairs, a group of Americans are chatting joyfully.—
Lucy Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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My favorite style of Brazilian music is a roda de samba, where musicians play in a circle as the crowd joyously surrounds them at spots like Vaca Atolada or Pedra do Sal.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The idea of replacing caddies with animals, lightheartedly suggested by moderator Eben Novy-Williams?—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Paltzik did not confirm the authenticity of the message but still suggested they were made lightheartedly.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
21 Oct. 2025
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The hotel will also gladly arrange excursions to neighboring islands.—
Jesse Ashlock,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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The report states that 60% of consumers who traveled for health and wellness treatments in 2024 will continue to do so in future travels, and 30% of those who spent money on such activities would gladly spend more the next year.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
2 Jan. 2026
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The second is Nouvelle Vague, which giddily depicts the making of the French New Wave classic Breathless; by the end, the entire cast and crew have been driven up the wall by their mercurial director, Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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That, in turn, jars an earlier memory of happier days in the same car, giddily documenting on camcorder their initial move to New Orleans.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Stewart, who has been a Chanel ambassador since 2013 and has therefore worn the designs of all three of the brand’s post-Coco Chanel designers, saw a realism in the models’ mix of casual clothes and exuberantly formal ones, with jackets thrown over arms and newspapers stuffed into handbags.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
3 Dec. 2025
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Hell, clearly the most violent of the realms, makes for the most exuberantly entertaining of the books, filled with action, fantastical monsters, and occasional farce.—
Claudia Roth Pierpont,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Blithely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blithely. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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