blithesomely

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Adverb
  • 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.
    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, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • The Villarreal friendly offered a glimpse of both the potential and the challenge.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Lionel Messi in Las Vegas for an Inter Miami friendly shone a light on how sport is gravitating towards Nevada and the Strip.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • The hotel will also gladly arrange excursions to neighboring islands.
    Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Adverb
  • Downstairs, a group of Americans are chatting joyfully.
    Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adverb
  • The idea of replacing caddies with animals, lightheartedly suggested by moderator Eben Novy-Williams?
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Paltzik did not confirm the authenticity of the message but still suggested they were made lightheartedly.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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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“Blithesomely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blithesomely. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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