blissfully
Americanadverb
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in a way that is characterized by supreme happiness, peace, and contentment.
My cat lay blissfully stretching and purring on the sunny veranda.
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in a way or to a degree that excludes any hint of unease, trouble, or discontent.
The man is almost certainly lying, yet far too many of his followers remain blissfully unaware.
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Your third-grader happily plows through a plate of rigatoni with meat sauce, one of the few meals he will eat without protest, blissfully unaware that extra vegetables have been blended in for structural support.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
That’s the quiet beauty of compounding and time — and of my being blissfully ignorant to the fact that I could borrow from the account during a tough period in 2008.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
Art Deco buildings in Mumbai were, and still often are, hidden in plain sight, with even their occupants often blissfully unaware of their cultural moorings.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
“Expensive Basketball” is an encyclopedic romp through hoops history, footnotes strewn throughout like so many perimeter ball screens, threads blissfully unconnected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
I glared at him, sitting in the next room eating Oreos and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, blissfully unaware that his sisters might get shipped back to the Islamic Republic.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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