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Blithe

adjective

Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.

Carefree and happy and lighthearted. Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome. "A merry blithesome nature" , "Her lighthearted nature" , "Trilling songs with a lightsome heart"

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"Blithe" Quotes from Famous Books

... his elevation to the Papal dignity; he can find better work to do now; he's the man for us; let us choose him Doge to stem this current of adversity. You will urge by way of objection that he is now almost eighty years old, that his hair and beard are white as silver, that his blithe appearance, fiery eye, and the deep red of his nose and cheeks are to be ascribed, as his traducers maintain, to good Cyprus wine rather than to energy of character; but heed not that. Remember what conspicuous ...

— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted from that slender-handed, gold-haired, thin-lipped, blithe enchantress, and he required them to discover some means whereby he might retain his wife and his crown. There was a way and the magicians told ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens

... attire (albeit rich enough beneath the marks of travel), sun-burned visages and stolid manner in marked contrast with the bearing and aspect of the king's gay following. One of the alien troop pulled a red mustachio fiercely and eyed a blithe popinjay of the court with quizzical superiority; the ...

— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham

... blithe, courageous young midshipman, was gayly chattering with his protectress. There he was laughing at her good-naturedly as she trembled for his sake, and chattering broken German as best he could. Wealth is a good thing, and health a better; but surely high spirited ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various

... I saw no reason why his genial temper and buoyant heart should not remain with him to the end of his life. Yet within six months the man changed completely. He grew suddenly old and shrunken; the great blithe laugh that pealed through the house was silenced, the look of suave contentment with himself and with the world about him vanished from his face, and in its place I saw a nervous, troubled glance as of one who suspects a lurking foe ready to spring at his throat. The change which came over Job ...

— Tales of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman

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