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• s  lacking or showing a lack of due concern
  spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation
• s  carefree and happy and lighthearted
  was loved for her blithe spirit
  a merry blithesome nature

• Jane walked ahead in her scanty dress blithe in her disregard for all the stares that followed her.
• Amy's blithe spirit and wit will be remembered fondly by the scientists community who are often accused of taking life too seriously.
• The blithe chirping of the birds woke us up during our first day in camp.

• blithesome
• lighthearted
• lightsome
• light-hearted

News & Articles

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• Majestic presents Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’
  MANCHESTER – For two weekends this month, Manchester’s Majestic Theatre will present the smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, “Blithe Spirit.”
  June 20, 2013 - Bedford Journal
• Sample summer's slate of theater productions across Granite State
  In Noel Coward's classic comedy of ?Blithe Spirit,? fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine has re-married, but he's haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira, who is called up by a visiting ?happy medium? Madame Arcati.
  June 20, 2013 - New Hampshire Union Leader

Quotes

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• Tim Kaine in 940 News
  This is not something where the university officials, faculty, administrators have just been very blithe,Kaine said. "There has been deep grieving about this, and it's torn the campus up."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson in Boston Globe (registration)
  GLOUCESTER -- "Standing on the bare ground -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space -- all mean egotism vanishes," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1836 essay "Nature." "I become a transparent eyeball; I am...