insouciant

[ UK /ɪnsˈa‍ʊʃi‍ənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsusjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by blithe unconcern
    was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner
    an utterly insouciant financial policy
    an elegantly insouciant manner
    showed a casual disregard for cold weather
    drove his car with nonchalant abandon
    an ability to interest casual students
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How To Use insouciant In A Sentence

  • My basic attitude has always been that one should soldier on, stoic and insouciant in the face of life 's tribulations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ramona Simms - Gorgeously attired in head hankey and with an attractive unaffected insouciant wiggle, the girl from Ipanemah was oblivious to the admiring glance s she received from passers by … Archive 2007-03-11
  • Extant anthropoids appear to be blithely insouciant to such syndromes.
  • (In Beinart's case, I use the term pro-Israel without the quotation marks that I use when I describe organizations like AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee and The Israel Project which are in the "pro-Israel" business and insouciantly support policies that are destructive to Israel) .. MJ Rosenberg: Bombshell: Former New Republic Editor, Peter Beinart, on the Collapse of the "Pro-Israel" Establishment
  • Empson's criticism bespeaks a man of some social rank, and in manner it is appropriately insouciant and grand.
  • Initially insouciant, they become increasingly frantic and competitive as they disappear and reappear, adapting their outfits to the whims of fashion. Christianity Today
  • It's about wearing expensive clothes insouciantly, or cheap clothes with outrageous attitude, part stealth luxe, part understated showiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • One is that I know they probably FEEL great; they often have that kind of insouciant look about them that I think is partly due to not having a crotch seam and being able to get dressed in seconds. I missed blogging against sexism! - A Dress A Day
  • The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention. I search the horizon...
  • Programme-makers seem irresponsibly insouciant about churning out violence.
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