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- adverb In an
insouciant manner.
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Examples
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City elders are "insouciantly" unaware of risks to City Creek Center, he warned.
NaBloPoMo: A Love Letter to Joss Whedon trinfaneb 2008
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Today they feature a smiling former supermodel, Inès de La Fressange , as a working mother who insouciantly deals with issues ranging from paperwork to her teenage child.
L'Oréal Slogan Must Prove Worth Anew Christina Passariello 2011
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Pedestrians would take over the broad streets, tracing random paths across the intersection or stopping insouciantly smack in the middle to sip a latte, answer a cellphone or chat with a friend.
No More Dancing in Denver's Streets Stephanie Simon 2011
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Anyone who has played MW3 for more than, say, 16 hours straight, pictures themselves as Worthington; offering paternalistic guidance to fledgling gamers with one hand, insouciantly lobbing a grenade over the ramparts with the other.
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He had entered the tiring room unnoticed and was insouciantly lounging against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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At the breakfast table she eats jam insouciantly with her fingers, and as the crisis emerges, she is uniquely able to placate Claire's child Leo, demonstrating an intuitive wisdom and coming into her own as "Auntie Steel-breaker", the name conferred upon her by said nephew.
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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He had entered the tiring room unnoticed and was insouciantly lounging against the door-frame.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Toward the end of "Shanmukhapriya," Srinivas picked up his mandolin and insouciantly plucked a single, perfect note.
Music review: Kennedy Center 'Maximum India' festival opener U. Srinivas 2011
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Yet perhaps the most telling vignette came shortly after Rupert had confused Alastair Campbell with David Cameron - possible confirmation that the change of prime ministers is to Murdoch Snr the mere shuffling of junior personnel - when he revealed insouciantly that he always went in the back door of Downing Street because Cameron and others insisted on it.
Rupert Murdoch and his robot sidekick steal the show as Cameron sweats it out | Marina Hyde 2011
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As someone bashes insouciantly away on a piano – or is it a piano app?
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"When I opened the door, it was to find him leaning insouciantly against the frame.
Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin) by Jordan L Hawk
April 26, 2020