blithely in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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For years, the company blithely brushed off government concerns about privacy and competition, but that appears to be changing.
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Max burns the paper with the number and blithely performs an impromptu trepanning on himself in the right cerebral hemisphere with a power drill.
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In their state of innocence, children should not be regimented; rather, they should be playing blithely on the echoing green.
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This ignored his own talents, and blithely expected other pilots to reach his high standards.
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Just as blithely, he designated the hitherto autonomous regions as "territorial areas" to be called "provinces".
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He just rides blithely through every crisis he creates.
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Nor is he right in so blithely dismissing the relevance of classical liberalism in finding remedies for the ills he eloquently describes.
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The pair refuse to listen, blithely dismissing every suspicion or inconsistency he cites.
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She saw herself as a victim while blithely victimizing everybody else.
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If they managed their fortunes shrewdly, they were far better off, as they aged, than the lovers whom they had so blithely ruined.
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