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Recent Examples of insouciance The rigor and substance of the presentation’s early portion was balanced by signature TikTok insouciance. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 May 2025 To complement these ladies navigating a sea of business attire by sexing it up with insouciance (as well as micro hemlines and plenty of sheer) were her male coworkers who dabbled in a bit of New Romantic touches. Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages. Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025 The fragrance’s starting point was the consumer — especially Gen Zers, who are partial to a deep form of insouciance, with a liberating irreverence, market insights show. Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for insouciance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insouciance
Noun
  • In the build-up to this scene, Jordan has a clash with the head of student life about their gender identity, and the school’s intentional disregard of their experience and language around it.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Businessmen and revolutionaries alike tended to disregard borders.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That kind of perfect nonchalance for the street and the occasion.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Because the results came with an all-too-familiar indifference from her doctor.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Corigliano wrote his symphony in the late nineteen-eighties, to lament friends who had died of AIDS and to decry indifference to those deaths.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Insouciance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insouciance. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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