blasé

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Apart from her megafan, yesterday, who liked her an awful, awful lot, everyone else has been rather blasé about the presence of a fourth judge.

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  1. adjective Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.
  2. adjective Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.
  3. adjective Very sophisticated.

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  • The blasé attitude of brokers, buyers, and sellers was understandable. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • Such a blasé attitude toward the prospect of random death is not easy to understand … at least from our vantage point. —  Registan.net
  • Our drunken racists and rapists -- and their victims -- are now charged with capturing and guarding anonymous Muslims, their unquenchable but blasé appetites unchanged. —  SpoutBlog
  • This time last year he was so blasé about the show that he was sitting in the front row an hour before it started. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Wanted criminal Spider-Man swings in to the circle of blasé, unarmed secret service agents and suggests they ask the two Obamas a question only the real Barack Obama would know. —  Every Day Is Like Wednesday
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  1. French, from past participle of blaser, to cloy, from French dialectal, to be chronically hung over, probably from Middle Dutch blāsen, to blow up, swell; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, past participle of blaser, cloy, satiate, blunt, of uncertain origin.
 

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