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blithely
[ blahyth-lee, blahyth-lee ]
adverb
- without much thought, concern, or care:
I blithely went ahead with my project without really considering the impact it would have on my career.
- in a joyous or happy way; cheerfully or lightheartedly:
Left to my own devices I would blithely live the rest of my days imagining new recipes and tweaking old ones.
Word History and Origins
Origin of blithely1
Example Sentences
To those men, as one commander’s wife blithely puts it in the sixth season, virility is power.
She blithely tells her husband that if they were to lose all their wealth, she wouldn’t want to keep living.
In another episode, she slides pans of cake batter into her oven and blithely coos, “Good night, sweetheart.”
This is why it's so frustrating to see mainstream journalists, as Reuters did Friday, blithely argue there's a "clash" between Kennedy's "long to-do list" and Trump's alleged eagerness to cut back on federal spending.
It’s a crime against the decency and the English language that the words “deport” and “deportation” are flung around so blithely, not only by Trump and his hand-puppet, Stephen Miller, but by the mainstream media.
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