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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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of blithely1
Example Sentences
The fruits of all that research have been blithely and abruptly lopped off the vine.
“Mr. Musk has taken a chainsaw to the federal government with no apparent regard for the law or for the people who depend on the programs and agencies he so blithely destroys,” the memo stated.
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.”
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