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blasé

[ blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Synonyms: world-weary, jaded, apathetic

blasé

/ ˈblɑːzeɪ /

Origin of blasé¹

1810–20; < French, past participle of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perhaps < Dutch blasen to blow; blast

Origin of blasé¹

C19: from French, past participle of blaser to cloy

All the blase girls—the San Francisco girls do get so blase, poor things—are threatening to go in for chickens.

St. Blase prayed and made the sign of the cross over the boy, and behold, he was cured.

I can stand a surprising amount of this, and am by no means blase yet.

They were long blase on oaths; they numbered among themselves veterans and virtuosi of perjury.

He had what Carley called the New York masculine face, blase and lined, with eyes that gleamed, yet had no fire.

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