light-hearted
Britishadjective
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But the online chatter has not been all light-hearted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Hamish says there is no excuse for anything beyond light-hearted jesting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Erica Donald’s three-word rebuttal on X to speculation about her husband playing football again was also light-hearted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
But it still makes an awkward fit, tonally, in a book whose ostensible subject had created more light-hearted expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
And his efforts to ignore it, transcend it, seemed to work only when he spent his days looking for whatever was light-hearted and without grave consequences.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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