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blithely

[ blahyth-lee, blahyth-lee ]

adverb

  1. without much thought, concern, or care:

    I blithely went ahead with my project without really considering the impact it would have on my career.

  2. 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.



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“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.

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To those men, as one commander’s wife blithely puts it in the sixth season, virility is power.

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She blithely tells her husband that if they were to lose all their wealth, she wouldn’t want to keep living.

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In another episode, she slides pans of cake batter into her oven and blithely coos, “Good night, sweetheart.”

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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.

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