How to Use blithe in a Sentence

blithe

adjective
  • He was blithe about the risks to his health.
  • He showed blithe disregard for the rights of others.
  • As for prison itself, Boone is blithe.
    — Carrie Battan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Drug cartels should not be made to seem an occasion for blithe derring-do.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But if blithe grandiosity was Stein’s armor, there was a chink in it.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Take the case of our blithe acceptance of the electoral college.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Every joke fires infallibly, whether blithe, barbed or raunchy.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 May 2019
  • Those who survived the plague are still scarred by their memories of it, while the blithe young adults around them can’t relate.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Communism, in some measure, gave him his morals, without laying its heavy hand on his blithe spirit.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
  • His early entries that year are filled with blithe, gluttonous descriptions of food, plays and women.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • Girls was famously criticized for its blithe presentation of an all-white world.
    — Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 9 July 2017
  • Her sentences are blithe, pithy, almost biblical in their confidence.
    — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 June 2019
  • But the film suffers from a similar problem, depicting her crisis with the blithe touch of a stand-up routine.
    — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • In the Times’ reporting, both men are portrayed in all their vanity and blithe aggression.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2025
  • There are now new borders and fences going up all over Europe, as a response to Merkel’s blithe misjudgment.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And while this is great for Amazon’s shareholders, most Americans can’t afford to be so blithe.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 June 2017
  • To do so earnestly suggests a blithe unawareness of your surroundings, like shouting into the phone in public.
    — Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes.
    — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Had blithe optimism hampered the country’s ability to contain it?
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Listeners sent in stories of unpaid overtime, blithe bosses, and having to cover writers’ lunch bills.
    — John August, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
  • What would, today, be dismissed as garish act of patriotism was somehow symbolic of the bold, blithe zeitgeist.
    — CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Pursued with a blithe insistence that all would be better in this best of all possible worlds, that agenda helped seed the social chaos and despair that have been such fertile ground for the right.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Lost in the blithe tale of surviving one's youthful idiocy are all the subtleties of that process (as well as the one unsubtlety of it, that not everyone survives).
    — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
  • This pattern will persist, with each new job and each move and each insurance change and each new GP -- four doctors, eight years, a mantra of blithe reassurance.
    — Ted Allen, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
  • The state has been built on promises of an eternal present, on blithe and deliberate disregard for the past so as not to have to learn from it—on a refusal to give a single naked whit about the future.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2020
  • Her supporters would laud the court for having restrained a woman who, with blithe unilateralism, had attempted to put an ocean between a small boy and one of his mothers.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • In some ways, Green Book feels too old-fashioned, with blithe characterizations that seem ripped from an earlier era of filmmaking.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
  • John Slattery makes a rather blithe Eisenhower, though perhaps that’s just how Brits see Americans, as breezy and shallow.
    — Mick Lasalle, kansascity.com, 1 June 2017
  • John Slattery makes a rather blithe Eisenhower, though perhaps that's just how Brits see Americans, as breezy and shallow.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
  • This swerving tone—from blithe to pitiable, humorous to harrowing—works well in the books, when we are glued to Patrick’s side and treated to his acid tongue and exquisite descriptions.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 17 May 2018

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