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blithe·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantlyadverb
in a joyous manner
"they shouted happily"
Wiktionary
blithelyadverb
Without care, concern, or consideration.
As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores.
blithelyadverb
In a joyful, carefree manner.
blithelyadverb
In a kind manner.
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blithely
Blithely is an adverb used to describe an action done in a joyful, carefree or casually indifferent manner, often implying a lack of thoughtfulness or concern.
Webster Dictionary
Blithelyadverb
in a blithe manner
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of blithely in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of blithely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of blithely in a Sentence
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Economics is hard. Really hard. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-boggingly hard it is. I mean you may think doing the Sunday Times crossword is difficult, but that’s just peanuts to economics. And because it is so hard, people shouldn’t blithely go shooting their mouths off about it, and pretending like it’s so easy. In fact, we would all be better off if we just ignored these clowns.
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