blasé
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Origin of blasé
1Other words for blasé
| apathetic, jaded, cloyed, sated, glutted, surfeited, world-weary |
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How to use blasé in a sentence
Jeffery “blasé” Tsang, an American DPS player and one of the two players on the Spitfire roster not coming from the Hurricane, said he’ll be based in Los Angeles at the start of the season.
The OWL’s London Spitfire are hoping to go big by going home | Teddy Amenabar | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe signature tremble in his voice can either sound urgent, as if he were shivering in the cold, or artfully blasé, as if he were singing along to a Ready for the World tune in his ear buds as he prowls the frozen foods aisle.
At the weirdest Super Bowl, the Weeknd came to play | Chris Richards | February 8, 2021 | Washington Post“For security, Mom,” he responded, equally incredulous that I could be so blasé about such matters.
All this security in D.C. to thwart terrorism, yet the threat came from within | Petula Dvorak | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostOccasionally, one will plod into a nearby community, looking as blasé as a shopper on his way to the grocery store.
Invasion of the hippos: Colombia is running out of time to tackle Pablo Escobar’s wildest legacy | Sarah Kaplan | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostI’ve become fairly blasé about these cold-blooded creatures.
All the blase girls—the San Francisco girls do get so blase, poor things—are threatening to go in for chickens.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonSt. Blase prayed and made the sign of the cross over the boy, and behold, he was cured.
Mary, Help of Christians | VariousI can stand a surprising amount of this, and am by no means blase yet.
An Autobiography | Elizabeth ButlerThey were long blase on oaths; they numbered among themselves veterans and virtuosi of perjury.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Karl MarxHe had what Carley called the New York masculine face, blase and lined, with eyes that gleamed, yet had no fire.
The Call of the Canyon | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for blasé
/ (ˈblɑːzeɪ) /
indifferent to something because of familiarity or surfeit
lacking enthusiasm; bored
Origin of blasé
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