insouciantly

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"Dare you to ride her in Not to-day, thanks," retorted Tess insouciantly--that was another quality Missy envied in her friend, her unfailing insouciance.

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  • And wearing clothes that look as if you've nicked them from aforementioned proof of desirability suggests that maybe - just maybe - you had sex last night and have insouciantly (a pretty word for "lazily") dressed yourself from his wardrobe as opposed to conscientiously going home to get changed properly.
  • It is tragic that Palestinian civilians are dying, but Hamas locates its military installations and administrative facilities in civilian areas precisely to dissuade Israel from attacking Hamas as it insouciantly bombards Israel, its soldiers and, more frequently, its civilians. —  PrairiePundit
  • The polymath Clement Freud was 49 when he flew down, insouciantly to pronounce the Cresta "the most reliable laxative imaginable". —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • Leo insouciantly promises to bring the picture, mainly to get Rhonda off his back. —  AllYourTV.com: Your Complete Guide To All Things TV
  • Poor noetic fool: in spite of the problems of violence and societal discord the fundamentals of Islam have created throughout the Western world and the Middle East, in spite of the fact that these same fundamentals are blamed by many Western intellectuals (excepting, of course, the Left and the Christian and Jewish pluralists) as the causes of this violence and societal discord, he insouciantly recounts in the context of John L. Esposito's praise of —  magic-city-news.com
 

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