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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Kindly.
  2. Gladly; joyfully; gaily.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. Without care, concern, or consideration.
  2. adv. In a joyful, carefree manner.
  3. adv. obsolete In a kind manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a blithe manner.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a joyous manner

Etymologies

  1. From blithe +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Edited for Addition: Again blithely selling jewelry to a couple of ladies.”

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  • “I'm coming," she called blithely to the scarlet flowers.”

    Mrs. Red Pepper

  • “Forward!" he called blithely and boldly to the officer; while Crates, with loud lamentations, was protesting his innocence to the warrior who was putting fetters upon him.”

    Arachne — Volume 07

  • “Recorded "at various concert halls around the globe between 2007-10" as his latest label blithely puts it, he's as inventive and unfailingly swinging here on his 62nd trio album as when he left Miami long ago.”

    Evening Standard - Home

  • “It wasn’t until much later that I thought to wonder which was me, the beast, who had once drank blithely from the toilet and licked crumbs from the floor, or the tin box at my neck.”

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  • “Annadoah called blithely and coquettishly after him.”

    The Eternal Maiden

  • “So instead of calling blithely out of him, as I had intended, I went silently up the stairs.”

    The Prairie Mother

  • “He went to the Mardens ', and Mary, who admitted him, put down her name, and then called blithely into the kitchen, --”

    Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life

  • “Reverend Jen has spent nearly 20 years cranking out a lovingly and welcomingly outlandish swath of creative work, from creating and curating the Troll Museum to hosting and organizing Anti-Slams to coining the blithely irreverent term "art star" and launching”

    Baltimore City Paper

  • “So do I," blithely, "for I shall probably bore you to death!”

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  • Noelle Knight "'Oh, we'd try to catch almost anyone unawares,' he said blithely.'"-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris May 18, 2011

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